How often does one read about people having numerous names when it comes to fraudulent activity? Multiple addresses for various claims, etc. What confidence can there be in filling in the data gaps with information from other sources? Quote. Stats NZ will begin releasing the delayed data from last year’
Guyon: And it’s Morning Report. Corrections spent just over a million dollars on 193 ice slushy machines for its staff in prisons to help them combat the heat over summer, National’s leader Simon Bridges says it’s wasteful and extravagant spending, he’s with me in the Auckland
The CGT battle is won, and whoever takes the credit for it, there will be no CGT while Jacinda is prime minister. That may not be for long, but we can take it as an assurance that it won’t happen for a while at least. That is all that
Well worth a listen and/or read. Clever lyrics from the Parody Project LYRICS TO THE DAY COLLUSION DIED? Two long years ago the probe began and many thought that someday it would make them smile. And those who said it had no chance were scowled upon and seen askance
Does the New Zealand media think that we are dimwits? They most certainly do, because they freely slur and lie about Donald Trump. For more than two years we’ve heard about Trump?s impending impeachment. It was a forgone conclusion (and still is for some sad Dems). When impeachment
Where did the teachers go? Somewhere, over the Rainbow? Kids having story books read to them by bearded men with lipstick seems wrong to me. Where did all the ?real ? teachers go? Those that taught us to think for ourselves, not to think as they think? To be a teacher
Take equal parts “tolerance, respect and understanding”, throw in a bit of “illumination” and voila! You have created the left’s updated version of Fawlty Towers ‘Don’t mention the war’ episode. Last week the luvvies have been conflicted, severely, and, not knowing what to do in fear of breaching
Matthew Hooton?s article in a newspaper entitled Jacinda Ardern on track for triumph in 2020 makes for interesting reading. While his numerical facts cannot be argued some of his other comments are open to debate. Matthew makes the point that Jacinda’s absolute rejection of a Capital Gains Tax
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds The essence of the conservative attitude is perhaps best illustrated by G.K Chesterton?s metaphor of the fence. Imagine a fence across a road. A progressive (or ?reformer? as Chesterton has it) says ?I don?t
More than 100 people – “including white supremacists, Muslim converts and people left disgruntled by the Christchurch terror attack – are being actively monitored by police” according to this article in Stuff. The synonyms of ‘disgruntled‘ include: dissatisfied, discontented, aggrieved, resentful, fed up, displeased, unhappy, disappointed, disaffected, angry, irate, annoyed, cross, exasperated,
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The government that is ‘bringing kindness back’ is failing on every front, but its performance to date on child poverty is truly woeful. This is the policy on which Jacinda has staked her own reputation, as she has publicly stated that child poverty is the reason she went into politics.
Paula is determined to work for at least another 15 or 20 years. And no, for the 100th time, she doesn’t have designs on the top job of leading National! “It’s flattering that there might be people who think that I could, but actually, I get to decide
As we all know, despite their near-universal demonstrable lack of any other talent than repeating words that other people have written for them, actors seem to regard it as their God-given duty to tell us what we should be thinking. For the most part, celebrities should simply be ignored. These
