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Refugees want better state housing
While we want to control immigration in this country, we have to acknowledge that the plight of genuine refugees, before they get here, can be grim. Having to leave their homelands to an uncertain future, leaving virtually all of their belongings behind and spending years in camps waiting for resettlement
Transcript: Gun & hate speech law reform + Winston Peters’ previous comments on Islam
Guyon Let’s put some of that to the Acting Prime Minister, Winston Peters who joins us now, good morning to you. Winston Good morning. Guyon We’ve just had Nicole McKee from the Coalition of Licenced Firearm Owners, I know you probably wouldn’t have been able to hear
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
A river of crocodile tears won’t pay for all those guns
If self-righteousness was hard currency, New Zealand?s economy would be booming right now. Unfortunately, ordinary citizens have to pay for politicians? brain-farts with cold, hard tax-money. In the case of the COL?s gun buy-back scheme it’s a whole lot more money than they thought. Quote: Acting Prime
We must all use public transport…
In an attempt to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the government is working very hard to force us all onto public transport. For many, the cost savings, if there are any, do not outweigh the inconvenience, nor the additional time needed to travel by bus or train. Many people consider it
What is the point of a law that is only successfully applied to the law abiding?
Whether or not you personally think that restricting certain firearms will make New Zealand a safer place or not, the following two points should make everyone pause to think. The new gun law is being rushed in a very undemocratic way. The government expects to pass legislation banning most semi-automatic
Gender is not a social construct
The ?IFLScience? crowd seem to imagine that science is a discipline of rigorous intellectual purity, somehow immune to such follies of human nature as fraud, bigotry and faddism. This is complete nonsense of course. Walter Gratzer?s excellent The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty is an often
The phone is mightier than the arrow
There are many tales of soldiers whose lives were spared when bullets or shrapnel were stopped by a Bible carried in the breast pocket. For instance, Lance Corporal Elvas Jenkins at Gallipoli: Quote: A lead shrapnel bullet struck the middle of the book, passing through the Psalms and Revelation and
Another day of multicultural savagery in Melbourne
Melbourne?s vibrant multicultural diversity has claimed another innocent victim. Quote: A father had his skull pounded in with a can of cat food while his own children watched on in horror. Jal Myaker, 20, of Melton, was free on bail when he set upon Greg Szopa in the inner
What we need is an old fashioned Preacher Man
By Patriotrealm I think we need a Preacher Man. Troubled times. Bad times. Times of biblical proportions. Plagues of Lord knows what? times of trouble and destruction and times to end all times. What we need is an old fashioned Preacher Man. Do we already have him? I attended Sunday
It’s Australian readers’ turn to deliver their verdict on Jacinda Ardern
I?ve already brought Whaleoil readers the thoughts of two Australian journalists who are less than dazzled by Jacinda Ardern?s carefully constructed halo. Thoughtfully, The Australian has published a summary of their readers? opinions. Now, some will no doubt object that these are merely the brainwashed ravings of those
The first step on the road to a dictatorship
On March 28th SB wrote an article headed – I?m scared of our government. Although the headline might look over the top at first glance the content in the piece is a wake-up call to every sane person in this country. I completely agree with the comment SB made that
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
The gap between the facade & the reality
Isn’t it wonderful that the internet never forgets? Here is a little something from two years’ ago when Winston Peters was on the campaign trail and spouting populist mantras in order to win votes. In the speech reported here he talked about the gap between the facade and the
Power to the Public Service, right-on?
If the continuing drama over Brexit teaches us anything, it?s that the political class see themselves as a class born-to-rule. Where at least the old-school aristocracy paid some lip-service to noblesse oblige, the modern ruling-class view the demos as little more than a deplorable annoyance. The EU?s arrogant