I feel very sorry for people who think like this. I want choice not because I can afford something better, but because my idea of whats “best” may be quite different to yours. For example, I consider a Christian school to be the best place to send any children I might have (assuming I can’t [...]
See, this is how Wikileaks is going to undermine peace. New Zealand has been using the Waihopai communications base to spy on Fiji’s military, passing the intelligence to the United States Government, WikiLeaks cables reveal. The base was used in the 2006 coup and probably the 2000 coup, although New Zealand officials have always denied [...]
Idiot has really outdone himself here. New Zealanders love whales. New Zealanders hate whaling. So you’d expect the New Zealand government to be joining the Australian government’s case to prevent Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary before the International Court of Justice, right? Wrong. Instead, we’re just standing on the sidelines: … Wouldn’t [...]
Idiot/Savant gets all hyped up about arming police. An unarmed police force polices by consent; they have no option but to seek the active cooperation of the citizenry. An armed police force polices by fear, using the omnipresent threat of lethal force to “induce compliance”. Oh, they might not be sticking the gun in your [...]
In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr called for an end to racism. His most famous quote is this section: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the [...]
