A post by Glenn caught my eye the other day and I have not been able to stop thinking about it as despite knowing that Glenn knows what he is talking about in this field, I just am struggling to believe his numbers. It really is proof-positive of the socialist extent of Labour’s policies in […]
Entries Tagged as 'Social Commentary'
Statism and Wealth Re-Distribution
October 31st, 2008 10 Comments
Tags: Bad Policy · Elections · Glenn Peoples · Statist Mindset · Wealth Re-Distribution · Welfare
Is Abortion Liberal? Part 2
October 27th, 2008 27 Comments
In my previous post, Is Abortion Liberal? Part 1, I argued that liberals who support the non-initiation of force principle can support abortion only on two grounds; (a) the fetus is a person but its existence inside the mother without her consent constitutes a form aggression, and hence, the mother’s action of killing it is […]
Tags: Abortion · Classical Liberalism · David Boonin · Feticide · Francis Beckwith · Liberalism · Libertarianism · Michael Tooley · Peter Cresswell · Rodney Hide
Guest Post: Laidlaw College’s Mark Strom Responds to Critics
October 21st, 2008 14 Comments
Some weeks ago I wrote a review on the launch of Laidlaw College. I commented on the new vision for the future and my own reflections and frustrations of studying at its previous incarnation, Bible College of New Zealand. The comments section of this post saw the eruption of strong sentiment and criticism of Laidlaw […]
Tags: BCNZ · Guest Post · Laidlaw College · Mark Strom
Cambridge Tornado
October 17th, 2008 1 Comment
Old friends Roger and Donna were woken in the night by the tornado that tore through Cambridge last night and realised that their back fence and two trees were gone. This was their backyard: The tree took out their fence and their neighbour’s roof: When they went outside there was debris everywhere and there was […]
Tags: Weather
Election Lollies: Labour Vote Buys with Student Allowance
October 16th, 2008 Comments Off on Election Lollies: Labour Vote Buys with Student Allowance
Socialism is an easy disease to catch. Labour roll out their election bribe for students and our daughter Sheridan (Sherry) gets excited. She starts Uni in March and at that point will have to quit her part-time job as the hours will conflict with her studies. For a 16 year old she earns a fair […]
Tags: Elections · Personal Responsibility · Student Debt
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.
More Reasons to not Vote Green: Population Control gets a Global Warming Twist
October 18th, 2008 4 Comments
The blogosphere is abuzz with the Greens new Family Policy which “proposes setting a level of population New Zealand could sustain and leaving room within that for climate change refugees from Pacific Islands. They also want parents educated about the impacts of population growth when they are planning their family size and how far apart […]
Tags: Bad Policy · Bad Reasoning · Eugenics · Greens · Urban Myths