Can Some Medications Increase This?
The links between anxiety and depression medications and the risk of suicide.
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What Would a Libertarian Society Look Like?
Fairness, justice, freedom of speech, the rule of law, the free exchange of labour, goods, and ideas. We’ll take a little bit more of each to start. We’re not saying utopia will spring up overnight – but it’ll be a lot better than what we have now.
Whanau’s Political Fall From Grace
From self-rated 8/10 to embarrassing Māori ward defeat.
What It’s Like to File a Complaint
Trying to communicate with a multi-headed te reo gabbling chook.
Funding the Education for Children With Challenges
Flaxmere College receives $262,720 of marginal funding per year as the highest EQI school in NZ. This is a 2.14 per cent addition to the funding level any high school in New Zealand receives. It works out at less than five dollars per student per day.
How to Keep Your Tinfoil Hat Polished and Your Brain Sharp
The next time you hear about a conspiracy, ask if the source has the right access, if the story is predictive and where the natural constraints might be. This approach should help you filter between real conspiracies and normal policies.
Have Some MPs Been Oikophobic?
Many might think it would seem at least naïve not to at least raise the question as to whether the damage consistently inflicted upon a formerly far more stable and happy country has been at least partly because of politicians who may possibly be oikophobic, prioritising their own personal agenda.
Book Review: Pilgrim, by Bruce Logan
We have lost our way. We lack gratitude, humility and forgiveness. We lack brotherly love. We lack meaning and purpose. We can see it most clearly in our parliament with TPM and the Greens. There is no gratitude: just an endless whine of victimhood.
Poll Shocker: Labour Closes Gap, Luxon Sinks Deeper
If the opposition won’t opposition, at least the press is filling the void. But for National, this is a wake-up call. Ignore it at your peril.
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Face of the Day
On Wednesday afternoon, at the Police Association’s annual conference in Wellington, Cahill handed over the reins to Watt, a frontline sergeant who has previously vowed to make officer safety his top priority.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… consummate (adjective, verb): adjective 1: extremely skilled and accomplished 2: of the highest degree 3: complete in every detail : perfect verb 1: to make (marital union) complete by sexual intercourse 2a: finish, complete b: to make perfect c: achieve Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Consummate is
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.