Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn pings TV3. So, in fact this has nothing to do with the foreshore, except for the possibility of a future claim. The dispute is actually over access to the beach across private land. This is a thorny issue in itself – one which saw the Labour government try and force [...]
Another for the “good news to ignore” file. London, England (CNN) — Animals that were thought to be extinct for hundreds of years may in fact still be alive, according to a new study by Australian scientists. Biologists at the University of Queensland examined more than 180 different extinct species, only to discover that a [...]
From Family First’s Email… [or, via twitter, the release] Family First NZ says that the latest police statistics on the anti-smacking law trivialize the real impact of the anti-smacking law and fail to reflect the widespread confusion over the effect of the law, the impact on parenting and parental authority, the continued opposition to the [...]
Something is very wrong with the west. “And we are sickened that anyone in our society, such as the students allegedly responsible for making the surreptitious video, might consider destroying others’ lives as a sport.“ In this case, it’s a sex video, but it might have just as easily been someone talking about home invasions [...]
Jim Anderton coudn’t decide if being mayor of a major city hit by a major earthquake was a full-time job. His lack of clarity has cost him dearly. There has been a dramatic turnaround in the race for the Christchurch mayoralty since the Canterbury earthquake. A UMR Research Poll released today shows 55 per cent [...]
Saw this on Not PC. A new Pew survey is pretty much guaranteed to ruffle the feathers of the faithful. In a survey of religious knowledge, Americans did fairly poorly, displaying little knowledge of world religions. More provocatively, Americans did not even know much about their own religions. A shocking forty-five percent of Catholics incorrectly [...]
Some useful statistics in this post. Does it sound counter intuitive to say there are no “anti-Islam events” going on around the country? In actuality it isn’t. We have but to check the FBI’s hate crime statistics to see this fact born out. The FBI shows that it is far more likely that you’ll be [...]
Today’s come from the Herald Games organising chief Suresh Kalmadi believes the Commonwealth’s western countries have conspired to unleash the scathing criticism which has marred the buildup to the event. I once had a flatmate who would always say “never blame a conspiracy when incompetence would fit”. I guess it’s hard to do that when [...]
