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 'Elections'
Statism and Wealth Re-Distribution
October 31st, 2008 10 Comments
Tags: Bad Policy · Elections · Glenn Peoples · Statist Mindset · Wealth Re-Distribution · Welfare
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
Voting, the Role of the State and Similarities Between libertarianism and Christianity
October 10th, 2008 14 Comments
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 […]
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
Coming Events
August 6th, 2008 3 Comments
As the early bird rate expires on Friday, I registered Matt’s and my attendance at this years Forum on the Family. Being election year, the line up is mostly politicians all keen to vote catch but of the array of political parties being billed, one is most conspicuously absent. Can you spot which one? Its […]
Tags: David Farrar · Elections · Events · Forum on the Family · Kiwiblog
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