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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Ron Smith: Losers

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For some while now it has been evident that President Obama is reluctant to talk about ‘terrorism’ and, still less, about ‘Islamic terro...
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Richard Epstein: In Praise of Income Inequality

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You cannot make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. One month into the second term of the Obama administration, the econom...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

Karl du Fresne: Not an easy woman to like

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LIKE a lot of people, I’ve been thinking lately about Margaret Thatcher. My feelings about her are, to use a fashionable term, co...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Mike Butler: Bombers’ anti-West influence

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“Dzhokhar was a normal American kid,” the flabbergasted, politically correct media reported after it was discovered that the Boston Marat...
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Frank Newman: TV tenants

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The Herald reports a tenant advocate has complained about the TV reality programme  Renters.  They claim it   unfairly portrays tenants as ...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Mike Butler: What the principal principal said

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A simple press release from the president of the New Zealand Principals’ Federation, Philip Harding, that claims the ACT party’s propose...
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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Mike Butler: Sparks fly in electricity fight

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A proposal from Labour leader David Shearer and Green co-leader Russel Norman, announced on Thursday, to bring down power prices, is the ...
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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Karl du Fresne: Heaven protect us from self-righteous zealots

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We tend to think of idealism as a good thing. Idealists want the best for the world and for humanity – or so we assume. Who could possibl...
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Frank Newman: A new uncertainty

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I have for some time now expressed the view that the greatest risk to investors at the moment is political uncertainty. After this week n...
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Friday, April 19, 2013

Mike Butler: The gay-marriage self-parody

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The phrase “gay rights for nuclear-free whales” quite accurately parodies the shallow, trendy, bumper-sticker campaigns of the New Zealan...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

Chris Trotter: Not Debating the Constitution

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I DON’T GET ANGRY very often. I’ve been around too long, seen history repeat itself too many times, for all that malarkey. Just occasi...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Ron Smith: Climate change and the growing of the grape

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A report in The Guardian (UK), a few days ago (8 April), was headed ‘Climate change will threaten wine production’.  A few days later ...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

Mike Butler: Tolerating tribal 'charities'

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How long will taxpayers tolerate the tax-exempt status of tribal “charities”? Last week Dr Michael Gousmett in his guest column on this s...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Mike Butler: Greens leader backs Maori dope trade

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Maori in regions where jobs are limited who are growing and selling cannabis to keep their whanau fed shouldn’t be punished for their ent...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Ron Smith: An Iron Lady

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I met Margaret Thatcher sometime in early 1970 and she made an enormous impression on me at that single meeting.  At the time I was emp...
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Mike Butler: Clarity on Maorified protocol

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It takes a visiting Danish politician to bring a moment of clarity to the rent-a-powhiri madness that occurs at any official function. Ma...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Lindsay Mitchell: 4 in 5 Maori children born outside marriage

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Four in five Maori children are now born outside of marriage. The earliest statistics kept on Maori ex-nuptial births were in 1968. The p...
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Viv Forbes: Warm and well fed, or hungry in the dark?

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Which is worse - gradual man-made global warming or sudden electricity blackout?  Alarmists try to scare us by claiming that man’s act...
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Karl du Fresne: RNZ must right its lean to the left

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I have some advice – unsolicited – for whoever takes over from Peter Cavanagh, the chief executive of Radio New Zealand, who steps ...
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Reuben Chapple: Partnership? What Partnership

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Only in the last 25 years has anyone considered it an established fact that the Treaty of Waitangi created a partnership between Maori an...
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