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Read the top five posts from yesterday

This post is to provide you with the links to the top five most read posts as the vast majority of our readership do not comment and the post with the most comments is not always the most popular post. Our What’s Hot post and Must Read posts up

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Refugees stranded… at Auckland resettlement centre

Refugees stranded… at Auckland resettlement centre

The story of refugee Ibrahim Aziz, who is apparently leaving the country to start a new life in Malaysia, has highlighted a real problem with our increased refugee intake; once they leave the resettlement centre, we have nowhere for them to live. That is hardly surprising when the number of

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Word of the day

Word of the day

The word for today is… commemorate (verb) – 1. To honour the memory of (a person or event, for example), especially with a ceremony. 2. To serve as a memorial to. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : When you remember something, you are mindful of it. It’s appropriate, therefore, that commemorate

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Today in history

Today in history

Content by F T.Bear Good morning! Rise and shine! Today in history is a place for you early risers to exercise your brains as you wait for the day to begin. Please, by all means, bring your own bits of history to the comments section and add your memories

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Daily proverb

Proverbs 12 10 The godly care for their animals,    but the wicked are always cruel.

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The Silent Assassin: Disease

The Silent Assassin: Disease

By Paul Marcus Patriot Realm I read an article from America bemoaning how bad things are in the detention centres there. One unnamed person said, “It’s not just Ebola. It’s rampant TB, diphtheria, measles, mumps, scabies, huge HIV, incurable gonorrhoea, syphilis, impetigo, malaria, and child soldiers.” I had

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Small business wins big victory against campus bullies

Small business wins big victory against campus bullies

Financial activism has long been one of the favourite tools for the left to punish Wrongthink. Not that the right is immune, as recent boycott campaigns have shown, but the left have raised the tactic to a dark and dubious art. By the 1980s, vexatious lawfare, particularly by race-activist groups,

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wisdom

Wisdom

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. -Benjamin Disraeli

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Domestic violence family violence abuse

The truth about family violence

By The Aunties I often talk about what a great film Once Were Warriors is, and I also tell people it’s what cemented a very wrong-headed narrative in our national psyche. For many people, too many people, this is what family violence looks like. For most people, too many

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Polls apart

Polls apart

Why do the pollsters get it so wrong? In the 2016 US election, the polls showed Hillary Clinton had an 85% chance of winning. Polls in the recent Australian election had Labor certain to win. Brexit polls showed that Remainers outnumbered Leavers by a large margin. Going back as far

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Face of the day

A week-long Supreme Court battle over the extradition of Kim Dotcom and his business associates has begun. Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and Matthias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato face extradition to the US, which claims they were involved in a worldwide criminal organisation that led to an

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The Ardernian delusion

The Ardernian delusion

Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds A fortnight ago our government took on an awesome responsibility: the wellbeing of 4.8 million souls. The ‘wellbeing’ budget, after suffering more leaks than a hedgehog’s raincoat, was unveiled to the world and immediately received

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