It isn’t just direct, obvious welfare, but a web of indirect dependency through pointless jobs and services tied to government. And it isn’t just an economic millstone – it’s a cultural rot. The US risks the same fate unless it heeds the warning.
Disgusting disrespect for Anzac Day from the grotesque Greens.
It is to our eternal shame that in 2025 we are unprepared or unwilling to do what it takes to hand the baton of liberty to the next generations. Our negligence in defending it has rendered us undeserving.
To embrace Jewish identity fully (unapologetically and joyfully) is the most powerful response to those who have sought, and still seek, to erase it. Our answer to centuries of erasure is this: Am Yisrael Chai.
Children need stability, routine, security, and a mother and a father they can rely on. Welfare has robbed too many of these vital necessities. It isn’t the rest of New Zealand, the government, the public service, the Waitangi Tribunal, charities or academics who can fix this problem.
AI modes are “essentially like aliens to us.”
“No one wants to be the first person to put their price up.”
“Only women and people of the female sex can get pregnant and birth a child no matter how they identify.”
“We can finally vote, we have to vote.”
"Our diversity is our strength" vs "Lethality"
“Social media is still blowing everything else out of the water.”
The numbers may remain “volatile.”
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“It’s not about disrespecting the Treaty."
