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Entries from November 21st, 2008

New Zealand Christian Blog Rankings for October 2008

November 21st, 2008 1 Comment

Extrapolating from Tumeke’s October 2008 stats, the top 10 Christian Blogs on Public Discourse in New Zealand are: NZ Conservative (23 +1) Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (34 +2) The Briefing Room (35 -5) MandM (50 +27) Samuel Dennis (79 +1) Kiwi Polemicist (92 new) Gavin Knight (95 – 4) Put up Thy Sword [...]

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October Blog Rankings: MandM Crack the Top 50

November 21st, 2008 No Comments

The October NZ blog rankings are out and MandM, as predicted, is one of the top 3 movers and shakers, climbing 27 places to number 50: Unfortunately whilst Tim did update our URL to http://www.mandm.org.nz/ he failed to do so for our Alexa and Technorati Stats and went off our old and defunct blogspot url [...]

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What About the Poor? More on Sustenance Rights

November 19th, 2008 9 Comments

In my last post, What About the Poor? Sustenance Rights Examined, I noted the position of Nicholas Wolterstorff that, “If a rich man knows of someone who is starving and has the power to help that person, and chooses not to, then he violates that person’s rights as surely and reprehensively as if he had [...]

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Homosexuality and the Right-Wing Socialists

November 18th, 2008 27 Comments

Lately I have been thinking I must write a post about the sacred cow of homosexuality and how it can turn the most ardent liberal into a lefty. I am not the only person to have noticed this phenomena. As Matt once commented, “Christians should be very concerned with people who will sell out their [...]

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What About the Poor? Sustenance Rights Examined

November 18th, 2008 4 Comments

When I began university I had strong socialist leanings. The reason was that I believed, as a Christian, we had a duty to help the poor. Studying at Waikato University, however, brought me face to face with socialist academics and left-wing activists and I discovered a hostile and dangerous social agenda that I could not [...]

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The New Lineup

November 17th, 2008 1 Comment

The new Cabinet has been announced: John KeyPrime MinisterMinister of TourismMinisterial ServicesMinister in Charge of the NZ Security Intelligence ServiceMinister Responsible for the GCSB Bill EnglishDeputy Prime MinisterMinister of FinanceMinister for Infrastructure Gerry BrownleeLeader of the HouseMinister for Economic DevelopmentMinister of Energy and ResourcesAssociate Minister for the Rugby World Cup Simon PowerDeputy Leader of the [...]

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And United Future’s Baubles Are…

November 16th, 2008 4 Comments

National and United Future’s confidence and supply agreement is out. Portfolios outside Cabinet:Peter Dunne gets Minister of Revenue and Associate Minister of Health. Policy Concessions Include: Maintain the policy, research and advocacy role of the Families Commission whilst seeking to achieve administrative efficiencies between the operations of the Families Commission and the Office of the [...]

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And the Maori Party gets…

November 16th, 2008 No Comments

National and the Maori Party’s confidence and supply agreement is out. Two Maori Party MP’s get portfolios outside Cabinet:Dr Sharples gets Maori Affairs Minister, Associate Education Minister and Associate Corrections Minister.Tariana Turia gets Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, Associate Health Minister and Associate Social Development Minister. Policy Concessions Include: National offered a review [...]

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And the Left FIGHT BACK!

November 16th, 2008 10 Comments

I stumbled across this nonsense over at Socialist Aotearoa; the same old tired slogans from the student union movement are of course today’s mantra for the grown-up ex-student flunkys who now work in the state sector or for the “real world” unions. The only thing that’s changed is the number of wrinkles and the method [...]

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The Deal is Signed: New Zealand Has a New Government

November 16th, 2008 4 Comments

The hoardings have barely had time to gather dust and National have just announced they have stitched up a deal with ACT, United Future and the Maori Party. Surely this is the fastest confidence and supply stitch up in the history of NZ MMP. National and ACT’s confidence and supply agreement is available here online. [...]

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