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So Much for 100% Electric Cars

So Much for 100% Electric Cars

It’s sometimes said that America has to exist because we need somewhere to put all the crazy people. For their part, Americans might retort that that’s why they have California. If we’re living in a Clown World, then California is surely the most copious clown car honking

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Govt Forced to Shelve Plan to Smash Kids’ Piggy Banks

Govt Forced to Shelve Plan to Smash Kids’ Piggy Banks

Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz Warning Satire DEATH AND TAXES After a spectacular backflip on a plan to start taxing New Zealanders’ KiwiSaver fees, Labour has also quietly put the brakes on a separate plan to steal money directly from children’s piggy banks. The controversial plan was going to be

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Teachers Should Mind Their Own Business

Teachers Should Mind Their Own Business

Once upon a time, people sent their children to school to get a rigorous basic education: you know, stuff like reading, writing and maths. These days, parents wanting that would be best advised to home-school — as a small but rapidly increasing number are. Sending your kids to a government

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Labour’s Blown Their Trust with Voters
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Labour’s Blown Their Trust with Voters

Information Opinion If we needed further evidence of Labour’s obnoxious behaviour after Dr Sharma’s recent mind-blowing revelations we got it – from Labour themselves conniving a tax on people’s savings in KiwiSaver. This was ‘true to life’ Labour on a number of fronts: * They are hell-bent

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Another Hit Job from Stuff

Another Hit Job from Stuff

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) along with Public Health Physician Dr Ate Moala, and Barrister Lisa Hansen has been the target of yet another hit piece from New Zealand’s Stuff Media. Dr Moala is “accused” of being connected

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Free Taste of Silver Level Content by Stephen Berry

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Stephen Berry. They Can’t Even Splash the Cash Properly There are plenty of policies and spending increases this

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Stephen Berry on His Auckland Voter Guide
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Stephen Berry on His Auckland Voter Guide

Stephen Berry “Local body elections tend to have low voter turnout due to people’s unfamiliarity with the candidates standing,” says former Auckland Mayoral candidate and political commentator Stephen Berry. “Radical left-wing elements in the media and Local Government New Zealand are seeking to use this unfamilarity as a

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you can't trust labour
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You Can’t Trust Labour on Tax

Labour’s botched tax grab on Kiwi savers was the fastest reverse ferret ever seen in modern politics. It was so fast that the Taxpayers’ Union barely had time to beg for money to oppose it. Labour polls every night during the working week. The news broke on Wednesday night

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Be Careful Who You Call ‘Crazy’
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Be Careful Who You Call ‘Crazy’

Brian Tamaki Here comes the Kingmaker, whether you like it or not Luxon and Robertson! This morning I heard Luxon say on Newstalk ZB, “What I’ve tried to say consistently is that I’ve got nothing in common with Tamaki. I think they’re crazy…” “If it helps Mike,

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Too Late to Change Your Mind If You Change the Constitution

Too Late to Change Your Mind If You Change the Constitution

Remember when we were told that same-sex marriage was about “gays getting married — nothing else”? How’s that worked out for us? It’s taken barely five years to get from there to being screamed at as “bigots” if we raise an eyebrow at drag queens stripping in front

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Extreme Abortion Bill Gets the Boot

righttolife.org.uk A Bill in Victoria, Australia which would have forced hospitals with a religious affiliation and which receive any state funding to offer abortions and assisted suicide has failed. Earlier this week, Reason Party (formely named the Australian Sex Party) MP Fiona Patten attempted to force through the

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Google Play Store Bars Trump’s Truth Social

Google Play Store Bars Trump’s Truth Social

Gabriela Pariseau newsbusters.org Gabriela is a writer and researcher in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Students For Life of America and Iowa

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Might Want to Show a Bit of Gratitude

Might Want to Show a Bit of Gratitude

Some time back, BFD contributor Sir Bob Jones caused quite a ruckus with his column cheekily calling for a “Maori gratitude day” to replace Waitangi day. After all, as Jones pointed out, nearly all Maori alive today owe their very existence to at least some European ancestors. Not to mention

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

My god, that’s pretty rich.  Stuff is running a full-on dirty politics campaign the likes of which this country hasn’t seen before, they even proudly mention “Fire and Fury” in the article, a dirty politics hit-job if there ever was, and Stuff is running around trying

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