Crikey. She’s been a busy ol’ week leading up to Christmas, so little time to catch up, let alone keep up, with news here, there and everywhere, and then so much of it bad. The White Island accident reminds us how temporary happiness can be, may God bless those
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Shortly before he opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani (a Saudi Air Force officer) tweeted a message to the American people. In his tweet, he quoted both Osama bin Laden and Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki (of al-Qaeda fame). Since the al-Awlaki quotes
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Australian Family Coalition The long-running Israel Folau case was resolved this week (at least in part). After increasing his claim against his former employers to $14 million, mediation sessions finally saw an out-of-court settlement reached. The details remain confidential. So, what can we draw from this outcome
A corrupt Auckland cop who sold police database information to gangs has just been jailed. His conviction illustrates as clearly as possible exactly why having a gun register is a terrible idea. A former police officer who admitted illegally accessing the police database to leak information to an organised criminal
SonovaMin and Boomslang have some competition. Any cartoon that triggers the always offended, the permanently upset and the luvvies combined has got to be assessed and considered for laughs. Even the guy with the funniest name in NZ, Meng Foon, the Race Relations Commissioner has been triggered by this lighthearted
Today’s face of the day is cartoonist Garrick Tremain. His employers fell for the classic trap. They should never have apologised. Apologies are used against people as the mob say that it is proof that a thought crime has been committed and they then demand that their target loses
Greg Barton, Deakin University Can prison rehabilitation programs work, and is it sensible to try and rehabilitate seriously radicalised individuals convicted on terrorism charges? These are questions not just for the UK, in the wake of the second London Bridge attack over the weekend, but for the entire world. There
Lester Gray is using National MP Nick Smith to continue his wonky jihad against NZ First and now they are wanting to use parliamentary processes to try and destroy the party that Gray used to be the president of. Nick Smith seems intent on provoking the substantial lawsuit that is
