Online Sid had some fun with my Pacific Viewpoint TV screen-shot. Apparently my question to MP Paul Hutchison on Pacific Viewpoint was so powerful you could see the hadouken punch I hurled at him (or chi blast as my kids tell me the correct term is) when you freeze-framed the video. Classic! Hat Tip: Online […]
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Hadouken Punch
December 12th, 2009 12 Comments
Tags: Hadouken Punch · Humour · Online Sid · Pacific Viewpoint
Madeleine on Pacific Viewpoint TV on Abortion & Parental Consent
December 8th, 2009 7 Comments
Part one of the panel discussion I participated in on parental consent/notification for abortion airs on Pacific Viewpoint tonight (Tuesday 8 December) on Triangle TV at 7:30pm. Part two will air Tuesday 15 December at 7:30pm. The episodes will also be aired on Stratos (Freeview 21 & Sky Digital 89) tomorrow (Wednesday 9 December) at […]
Tags: Abortion · Bev Adair · Pacific Viewpoint · Paul Hutchison · Reverend Tavale Matai'a
Three Questions for NIWA
December 8th, 2009 27 Comments
Just in from the Auckland Public Meeting: Climategate, NIWA and the ETS. When it came to light last week that NIWA‘s official temperature graph and the data on their website were at odds, the former returning an increasing temperature graph the latter a flat graph, three questions were asked of NIWA by the Climate Conversation […]
Tags: Climate Conversation Group · Climategate · Gareth Renowden · Jim Salinger · Ken Perrott · NIWA
Auckland Public Meeting: Climategate, NIWA and the ETS
December 4th, 2009 23 Comments
In the wake of climategate, the NIWA contraversy and public concern over the effect of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation a public meeting will be held in Auckland on Monday featuring Richard Treadgold, convenor of the Climate Conversation Group, who collated the paper Are we Feeling Warmer Yet? that Matt drew from in NIWA, […]
Tags: Climate Change · Climategate · ETS · Global Warming · John Boscawen · NIWA · Public Policy · Richard Treadgold
Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part VI
December 3rd, 2009 Comments Off on Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part VI
In my last posts, beginning Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I, I set out the doctrine of religious restraint and critiqued some of the key arguments in support of it. I looked at the objection that the argument from respect is too thin, that applied consistently it excludes too much and Audi’s response to […]
Tags: Christopher Eberle · Doctrine of Religious Restraint · Freedom of Religion · Jurisprudence · Law Studies · Lydia McGrew · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Phillip Quinn · Philosophy of Religion · Political Philosophy · Public Policy · Religion in Public Life · Robert Audi · Stephen Carter · Terence Cuneo
NIWA, Climategate and Evasive Fallacious Answers
December 2nd, 2009 96 Comments
Climategate has come to New Zealand. The fuel providing the heat is a recent criticism of New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NZCSC).
Tags: Climate Change · Climategate · Copenhagen · ETS · Gareth Renowden · Global Warming · Ian Wishart · MacDoctor · NIWA · Public Policy
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
View Pacific Viewpoint TV Panel on Abortion & Parental Consent Here (Feat. Madeleine)
December 9th, 2009 24 Comments
Episode one of the television panel discussion Madeleine participated in on parental consent/notification for abortion is now available for viewing online here at Pacific Viewpoint TV. The show runs for 30 minutes; in this episode Madeleine features as an audience member (panelists are Bev Adair, Paul Hutchison, Reverend Tavale Matai’a) and she goes a round […]
Tags: Abortion · Bev Adair · MandM on Video · Pacific Viewpoint · Paul Hutchison · Reverend Tavale Matai'a