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Looking Prime Ministerial
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Looking Prime Ministerial

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com We’re constantly told by the media that Christopher Luxon lacks public support when compared with Hipkins. This is simply media imagery, nevertheless, it’s hardly surprising. Where are Luxon’s minders? As I’ve said on this Blog before, for God’s sake tell

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TVNZ & Stuff: Cash for Content Scandal

TVNZ & Stuff: Cash for Content Scandal

Back in 2014 Nicky Hager wrote a book called Dirty Politics. In it, he accused me of having journalists in my back pocket and also accused me of “cash for content” activities. He was entirely wrong about that. But now a real “cash for content” scandal has erupted that threatens

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Can’t Afford Games, Can’t Build Houses

Can’t Afford Games, Can’t Build Houses

What is it with socialist governments and utterly failing to learn from already-failed housing schemes? Well, I guess if they were capable of learning from failure, they wouldn’t be socialists. Which is as poor an excuse as any for the Albanese government lining up to join the ranks

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Is Labour a Dead Parrot?
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Is Labour a Dead Parrot?

According to Rod Emmerson, cartoonist for the ‘Ferald’ (NZ Herald), Labour is a dead parrot. Dead Parrot is a reference to the ‘Dead Parrot’ sketch featuring John Cleese and a dead parrot which the vendor refuses to acknowledge is dead. A bit like Tova refusing to believe the obvious in

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A Group AI Is Biased Against

A Group AI Is Biased Against

Autumn Johnson Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. newsbusters.org New research from the United Kingdom confirms what many already knew: artificial intelligence has

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The Great Pandemic Confidence Trick

The Great Pandemic Confidence Trick

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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Not So Fast…
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Not So Fast…

On Saturday the National party released its list for the forthcoming General Election. This led to the immediate, and for me rather sad, end of the political career of Michael Woodhouse (I did warn him, did urge him to be the candidate in the Taieri electorate). A good man who

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Value Your Vote – Election 2023
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Value Your Vote – Election 2023

familyfirst.org.nz As you prepare to vote in the upcoming 2023 New Zealand General Election, our Value Your Vote resource will help you vote for candidates and parties that share your values. Visit our Value Your Vote website to see the voting record of all MPs on values-based

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Labour Going Down like a Lead Balloon

Labour Going Down like a Lead Balloon

Labour’s vote has collapsed into the 20s as the centre-right grabs a lead in the latest 1News Verian poll. While the news might sound good for National, there is still the Luxon problem to deal with. Labour has sunk below 30% in the party vote in the latest

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Ex-Knight of the Day

Ex-Knight of the Day

James Hay Wallace can no longer use the title “Sir” after the government made a request to King Charles to strip him of his knighthood. Wallace was revealed as the prominent businessman who had sexually abused three young men back in June after he failed to be granted leave to

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The Ratchet Effect across Time

The Ratchet Effect across Time

Michael Matulef Mike works in construction by day and is an independent student of Austrian Economics by night. Mike associates philosophically with crypto-anarchism and is interested in learning how Bitcoin and other open source technologies can create parallel systems based on consent rather than coercion. mises.org The Constitution

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Are the Greens Overplaying Their Hand?

Craig Rucker Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. cfact.org The Green movement has a long history of rubbing people the wrong way. In some cases, it was perhaps for the public good, like starting campaigns to stop littering and save whales.

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Matt Taibbi’s Courageous Fight for Free Speech

Steve Dewey Steve Dewey is a retired federal financial regulator with 40 years of diverse business and financial experience in the private and public sectors. His career has involved the resolution of distressed asset portfolios and failed financial institutions in both Asia and the United States. In 2019, he founded

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They Are Weaponising the Weather and Events

cfact.org https://www.foxnews.com/video/6334165426112 Fox News Channel: How the left is ‘weaponizing’ every weather event – ClimateDepot.com publisher Marc Morano argues the left is pushing the ‘climate boogeyman’ after the wildfires in Maui on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’ Fox News Channel – Jesse Watters Primetime – Broadcast August 17,

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