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When President Donald Trump threatened to abandon NATO if delinquent European states didn’t pull their socks up and start paying their fair share of the collective defence pact, the panic was palpable. European nations like France and Germany have been free-riding on America’s dime for decades. Confident
PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham For decades now, the Hollywood Left has romanticized those brave Communist Party members who were blacklisted in the 1950s for refusing to cooperate with congressional investigations into their Soviet espionage. Just four years ago, Bryan Cranston was nominated
A few weeks back, we had dinner with some very long-standing friends. Jean and I had known each other for years: both British ex-pats, she, a card-carrying Labour member, and me, a member of the blue-tinted glasses brigade, may make an odd pair, but we have
Winston Peters has pretty much scotched any attempt for MediaWorks to bludge some cash for beleaguered TV3: Winston Peters kicked off his party conference by lashing out at the media, including MediaWorks, which on Friday announced it would sell its TV station. The sale would put hundreds of jobs in
With the shenanigans going on over in Botany, other problems are starting to surface as well. The tipline has received two credible tips over this weekend. Botany, which was supposed to be a coronation for Christopher Luxon, has turned into a donnybrook pitting a sitting MP against a cast of
Warning Break out the sick bags folks. Cause you are gonna get a little sick in your mouth. A newspaper reports on protesters at the NZ First conference, over the proposed gun laws. NZ First leader Winston Peters has met angry gun-owning protesters outside his party’s annual convention,
Today’s face of the day Saunoamaali’i Dr Karanina Sumeo is a very strange Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner, as she doesn’t support equal access to free speech. In fact, she supports feminists being de-platformed from Massey University describing it as a “Good call.”
In an interview with Sam Harris in 2017, sociologist Charles Murray observed that it had become obvious “that the new upper-class holds ordinary Americans in contempt. Disdain. And they’re not even hiding it any more”. Murray particularly referred to Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” sneer. That comment,
Joe Ascroft Economist New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Despite pockets of success for ratepayers around the country, the signal from local body elections is clear: the centre-right need to become more organised and offer clear ratepayer-friendly alternatives. Phil Goff resoundingly beat John Tamihere (176,000 votes to 80,000
“Never again,” they said 75 years ago, after Germany attempted to erase the Jews of Europe from existence. If only they’d meant it. But the Holocaust didn’t erupt from nowhere: it was the culmination of a long process. Although anti-Semitism had long stalked Europe, the cosmopolitan fin
New and smaller parties have to fight hard to raise their profiles with the public. The mainstream media are the gatekeepers, and as we have seen during the local body elections, media can and do choose to only cover the two or three candidates that they think are the main
Warning You won’t want to take this medicine I recommend taking a spoonful of sugar…( a tablespoon). Newsroom ran an interesting piece yesterday, ahead of NZ First’s conference, about the succession planning for NZ First. Contained within the article was an interesting couple of sentences about the possibility
Goff is a spendthrift of ratepayer money paying a surfeit of council employees over >$100k and ignoring excessive spending by council-controlled organisations. It was only when the whistle was blown that he showed any interest in curtailing them. Auckland Transport gaily blew $780,000 on three Papakura pedestrian
Warning Harsh truths ahead. Time to put on your rose-tinted glasses, plug your ears and sing la,la,la,la Simon Bridges, after a week of talking tough, folded faster than a deck chair sat on by a fat lass. Trevor Mallard has out-foxed the Clown Prince of
John Edmundson at the Redline Blog has explained why Karl Marx would not have supported Trans Activism if he were alive today. He would have supported Trans rights, he explains, but not at the expense of biological women’s rights. Marx’s most fundamental guiding principle throughout his life’s
