ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “Introducing hate speech laws, as described in a Cabinet Paper reported by Newsroom, would take human rights and our ability to problem solve as a country backwards,” says ACT Leader David Seymour After saying the laws are not currently a priority on Tuesday, the
Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet In a rare display of like-mindedness, the New Zealand Parliament a couple of weeks ago unanimously passed a bill adding three days to a working woman’s bereavement leave to cover the miscarriage or still-birth of a
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s disheartening to see the Government changing the law in response to the March 15 murders in a way the Justice Minister readily admits wouldn’t have prevented the events of March 15,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT thinks it’s important
Labour have stated that they will not be supporting my straightforward member’s bill to increase the maximum prison term for killing a police dog from 2 years to 5 years in a move that will baffle most New Zealanders, National MP Matt Doocey says. The Ministry of Justice has
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Go back four decades and there were few, if any, more interesting careers than law. Then the world changed, law became the domain of huge firms and specialisation turned it into a career for dullards. Nowadays every man and his dog has a law degree,
rt.com Lawmakers in Arkansas voted on Tuesday to override a veto from Gov. Asa Hutchinson on banning surgery and treatment for transgender minors. The Republican-controlled House and Senate in the state approved the measure despite objections from the governor and activists. The measure bans doctors from providing surgery, hormonal
The stupidity and duplicity over voter ID laws in the US just keeps getting more hypocritical and idiotic. What would you call people who think that black people are too dumb to find their local DMV or use the internet, yet screech that others are racist? And what would you
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Regulatory Standards Bill, drawn from the members’ bill ballot today, is a long overdue addition to New Zealand’s constitutional framework,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “The first attempt to pass a similar bill was the introduction of the Regulatory Responsibility Bill
“Cognitive dissonance” is the state of holding contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. Many of the hot-button issues in the Culture Wars are characterised by profound cognitive dissonance. For instance, groups preach about “tolerance” and “inclusion”, yet behave like bigots who viciously exclude anyone who disagrees with them. Our society regards
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Every once in a while, a bioethics article appears which is so powerful an indictment of injustice that it sends shivers up the spines of its readers. In 1949 Leo Alexander published “Medical Science under Dictatorship” in the New England Journal of Medicine, about the atrocities
There are calls for Sir Ron Brierley to be stripped of his knighthood after he pleaded guilty to possession of child sexual abuse material at a Sydney court hearing. When he was arrested it was reported that detectives seized his carry-on bags, laptop and electronic-storage units and allegedly discovered more
Christian Porter’s defamation proceedings against the ABC have the potential to give the taxpayer-funded broadcaster the sort of clip over the ear it’s long deserved. ABC journalists have a deplorable habit of launching poisonous vilification campaigns against certain public figures – almost always conspicuously conservative. The biggest hurdle facing
Tracy Livingston outdoorsparty.co.nz 31 March 2021 URGENT- OPEN LETTER Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Ministers of COVID-19 cc Attorney-General David Parker Director-General of Health Solicitor-General Una Jagose Chris James – Group Manager Medsafe Health and Disability Commissioner Dear Prime Minister, Attorney-General, Director-General of Health and Chris Hipkins Re Pfizer Vaccine
