It is probably just as well that the Idiot at No Right Turn does not allow comments on his blog, because the drivel that he writes would attract the very worst of trolls. And terse comments from the MacDoctor. Take one of today’s offerings: John Key’s response to introducing charter schools despite never having campaigned [...]
The past two weeks certainly have been interesting in New Zealand politics. Buccaneer Brash sails into the Act caucus and makes Rodney Hide walk the plank one week and Hone the Horrible blunders through the political landscape in true barbarian fashion in the next. Suddenly, the rather colourless election looming in November looks like it [...]
I see Don Brash has learned no new political skills since ceasing to be a National MP. I don’t know who is advising him, if anyone, but the man really does need some significant help. What on earth possessed him to try for the leadership of ACT? Much has been made of the fact that Brash [...]
Okay, so most of my readers know that I am relatively right-wing in my politics, but I must say I find it hard to get excited about the likely demise of the ACT party. As far as I am concerned, ACT died when Richard Prebble left, but its zombie has been walking around chewing up [...]
Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article Following on from my previous post on the futility of government intervention in the case of obesity, the Herald obligingly provides this piece of on-topic spam: Support high for GST trim Political momentum for removing GST from healthy food is increasing with both [...]
Turns out that I was right about the Left-wing blogs and the media continuing to rabbit on about John Key’s “cannibalism” joke. And, yes, it does make them look like complete prats. The editor of the Herald on Sunday even goes as far as to suggest that the coalition between Maori and National is falling [...]
Apparently that nice Mr. Key is less than enthusiastic about the economic recommendations for his former rival Don Brash. Gasp! Shock. Horror. Not. Without even looking at Brash’s recommendations I could have told you that they will be rejected out of hand by Key. The entire taskforce was never designed to produce any viable suggestion. [...]
MFAT officials have warned that the new proposed hardline sentencing laws risk damaging New Zealand’s international reputation and ability to influence others. My initial reaction to reading of this is, so what? I say this not because the UN Human Rights Council consists mostly of nations that have execrable human rights records, as David Garrett suggests. Frankly, I think that argument [...]
It is rare for the Greens and Act to see eye to eye on anything, but it seems they agree on the stupidity of borrowing to pay into the Cullen fund. No normal person would borrow money in order to place it in a savings fund that is losing money. Even borrowing money to place [...]
It is human nature to prefer retribution over redemption. We much prefer the bad guy in the movies to meet a sticky end. If it is a “guy” movie then preferably an end involving large explosions. What we don’t like is when the bad guy redeems himself either in part or fully (although we tolerate [...]
