Someone emailed us a while ago asking what the difference was between Matt’s classical liberalism and my libertarianism, where did we part company and why did we define ourselves this way. We never answered because we have never really tried to pin it down before, we knew there we differed on some things and we […]
Entries Tagged as 'Social Commentary'
Voting, the Role of the State and Similarities Between libertarianism and Christianity
October 10th, 2008 14 Comments
Tags: Classical Liberalism · Elections · Libertarianism · Role of the State · Voting
Electoral Finance Act Threatens Privacy and Family Home
October 7th, 2008 10 Comments
Imagine coming home to this on your lawn: it’s 1000 knives! No this isn’t something from the “only in America” files it is Bob McCoskrie’s front lawn covered in knives, complete with threatening note related to Bob’s political activities! How did they get his address? Compliments of the Electoral Finance Act; law abiding critics of […]
Tags: Bad Policy · Bob McCoskrie · Elections · Electoral Finance Act · Freedom of Speech · Personal Abuse
Labour Cause Car Accident (Almost)
October 2nd, 2008 5 Comments
Whilst driving, through Labour’s Sue Moroney’s territory, on my way back from my weekly lecture at BTI in Tauranga, I laughed so much I nearly drove into a pole. Narrowly missing the pole, the laughter saw me nearly swerve into fence. This is what I saw on the side of Galloway St in Hamilton: I […]
Tags: Elections · Humour · Labour Party
John Key on Religion and Public Life
September 30th, 2008 21 Comments
A few weeks ago someone gave me a copy of this interview with John Key. Now the first thing to note is that the article was published by Gaynz.com. Gaynz.com are not a terribly reliable media outlet, and Madeleine would say that they are beneath the term “media outlet”. Hence, much of what is written […]
Tags: GayNZ.com · Homosexual Conduct · John Key · National Party · Religion in Public Life · Sexual Morality
More on the “Dark Ages” and Other Propaganda
September 27th, 2008 13 Comments
Those of you who have followed my discussions with Peter Cresswell on the history of Christianity and the relationship between faith and reason in the middle ages may find this abridged article by Dr James Hannam interesting. Dr Hannam has recently completed his PhD on the History of Science at the University of Cambridge. UPDATE: […]
Tags: Christian History · Dark Ages · Faith and Reason · James Hannam · Science and Religion
The End of Musical Chairs: The Pervasiveness of Political Correctness
September 15th, 2008 3 Comments
Alistair told me I had to write this so its all his fault! Our 7 year old son Noah has a ‘girlfriend’ who he ‘is going to marry one day.’ His ‘girlfriend’ also turned 7 yesterday and had a party. His ‘girlfriend’s’ mum went to a heap of trouble to decorate the house, make the […]
Tags: Political Correctness
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.
ACT Party Launch: Why on a Sunday Morning?
October 11th, 2008 4 Comments
Given we are exploring our short list of political party’s at the moment attending the ACT Party Official Launch is something we are interested in doing. However the details below make the decision to attend difficult, from ACT’s website: The official launch of the ACT Party campaign for the 2008 election will held be at […]
Tags: ACT Party · Elections