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Why Benefit Recipients and Govt Contractors Should Not Be Able to Vote
The hundred million or so Americans who rely on federal spending for their incomes won’t allow any real reform to ever occur. Runaway debt and spending is now baked into the system. These is no orderly or legal way out of this.
Explaining the Appeal With Polling
There is a lot to learn from Mamdani, even though he is a dangerous Marxist.
We Are No Longer Free
The ban on Ricky Gervais’s billboard saying “Welcome to London, Don’t Forget Your Stab Vest”.
Mortgagee sales nearly double as financial pressure mounts
More than half of the listings are in Auckland
Police order retraining after false breath tests uncovered
Employment and potential criminal investigations are underway.
Peters says Gene Technology Bill ‘won’t go ahead’ unless it’s fixed
“Let me tell you, if the bill can’t be fixed up, it won’t be going ahead.”
Europe moves toward age and ID checks for social media as France targets TikTok
Convictions could carry penalties of up to 10 years in prison and fines of €1 million.
‘Dial down the hysteria’: doctors say measles fear out of proportion to risk
The current outbreak is under 20 cases in a nation of 5.4 million.
Te Pāti Māori turmoil deepens as iwi leaders step in and byelections loom
The implosion continues.
Was Jacinda Ardern naïve or Machiavellian? David Cohen on the question dividing New Zealand
“I eventually decided she was Machiavellian.”