Fancy an emetic? The Herald is running a series of articles on child abuse today. Here is a nauseating recitation from a single article:

An average of eight children are killed each year, and many more end up battered in hospital at the hands of family members.
Children under two are especially vulnerable; each year 59 are admitted [...]

There is lots of colourful debate about this issue, both in the media and in the blogosphere. I will not debate the ethics and morals of the issue but stick to a few very simple facts.
Firstly homosexual relationships are about 7 times more likely to dissolve than a heterosexual marriage. This figure is probably lower [...]

Linley Boniface critiques the National Social Welfare Policy in the Dominion Post today. Jafapete blogs about how Americans would like balance in the blogosphere, but you won’t find much balance in this article. Linley appears to be fairly foaming at the mouth, accusing National of taking “a pop at the party’s tried-and-trusted preferred villain – single mothers.” Her [...]