I wanted to title this post “much ado about nothing” but it’s just too hackneyed. But that is exactly what I think of the Russell Norman Protest Saga. I’ve seen a lot of outrage over Norman’s treatment with, hilariously, a great deal of nationalistic fervour from the left. Even some of my right wing compatriots [...]
The Amphibious One posts a long interview with Paul Drain on how wonderful the Cuban Health System is. This is not the first time I have seen left-wing articles on how wonderful (and cheap) the Cuban Healthcare system is. Such articles are usually full of unflattering comparisons with the US Healthcare system and the somewhat [...]
Watermelons block motorway I thought this was some sort of environmental protest by the Greens. Apparently not. Add a Comment
The left’s pointless inquiry into bank rates has now been released and can be accessed here. It says it is the Report of the Parliamentary Inquiry into Banking but it is not, of course, an official parliamentary inquiry, it is a Labour/Jim’s Vanity Party/Green inquiry and has no official government sanction as far as I [...]
Paula Bennett has turned her attention to invalid beneficiaries. In a carefully worded statement, she says: “This Government will support those that cannot work. “I just want to be clear that this is not a blanket 85,000 people having to walk through the doors of Work and Income in the first month or something,” Ms [...]
New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, the people that lefties love to hate, have pointed out the real “elephant in the room” in the debate on climate change. They report that reducing greenhouse gasses is a low priority for New Zealand and there are much more important environmental issues we should be paying attention to [...]
The MacDoctor often hears Global Warm-mongers talking about the health effects of global warming. I note that these articles fall mainly into two categories. Those that confuse pollution with global warming, either naively or deliberately, and those that confuse facts with speculation, again, naively or deliberately. A prime example of the first group is the [...]
I see that question time was filled with references to the UNDP Human Development Report on Human Mobility and Development and a book called The Spirit Level. No Right Turn and FrogBlog are also terribly excited about the report, as if inequality is the only thing that matters. They probably get this idea from the [...]
Anyone would think that Tony Ryall was the star in Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 12 – the hospital version. Health jobs slashed Screams the Stuff headline (a slightly more sedate Up to 500 jobs to go as new health authority set up is the headline of the actual article). The Herald’s contributions: National Health Board [...]
Gordon Campbell waxes lyrical on the plan to cut ACC benefits to seasonal workers, dwelling on the evils of ideology (National’s, of course. Socialist ideology is not evil in Campbell’s book). My little amphibious friend at FrogBlog uses Campbell’s diatribe as the basis of one of his “Gutting ACC” posts. The only problem is that [...]
