Luxon Returns to Waitangi: A Pointless Exercise in Political Masochism
If Luxon truly wanted to connect, he would commit fully or stay away altogether. Instead, we get this half-baked plan that satisfies no one.
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I love it when voters give the smarty pants in the media-government-lobby industrial complex the two-vote salute.
A Landslide
How did we go from an electoral system that gave us a government on election night to one where we must wait three weeks for the politicians to begin negotiating what we voted for?
Looking Forward With Tactics or Strategies
Tactics like election bribes win battles. Strategies like perpetual split voting win wars.
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Dai Henwood died holding the hands of his family in Auckland Hospital on Tuesday morning.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… effrontery (noun) - : shameless boldness : insolence Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : To the Romans, the shameless were "without forehead," at least figuratively. Effrontery derives from Latin effrons, a word that combines the prefix ex- (meaning "out" or "without") and frons (meaning
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: