A generation ago Martin Luther King stated he had a dream: that people should be judged on the content of their character, not the colour of their skin. Fast-forward to the current day and thousands are celebrating the fulfilment of this dream in the election of Barack Obama as US President. There is an irony […]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
Two Minutes Silence
November 11th, 2008 3 Comments
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month we take two minutes silence to remember the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, the end of World War One, effective at 11am, 90 years ago today. So many died […]
Tags: Winston Churchill · World War I
Just How Far Will the Left go?
November 11th, 2008 1 Comment
We all know the left will stop at nothing to win in politics; see what they did to Stephen Franks in Wellington Central – systematic election hoarding defacement, abuse on his blog (too numerous to link to any one example), You Tube videos twisting out of context comments into scary hate filled messages against Christians […]
Tags: Elections · Liberty Scott · Statist Mindset
The Impact of the Special Votes
November 9th, 2008 4 Comments
I sat down to work out how the special votes, which are yet to be counted, might impact the seats with the St Lague formula and saw David Farrar had already done it so I am going to be lazy and steal his post – I am tired, went to bed around 2am got up […]
The Voting is Over
November 8th, 2008 4 Comments
Curiablog‘s final results: National 59 (46.8%)Labour 44 (34.6%)Green 10 (8.1%)ACT 3 (2.6%)Maori 4 (2.4%)United Future 1 (0.5%)Progressive 1 (0.2%) There will be an overhang so the magic number to chase is a majority of 122 seats. Most likely formulae are: National+ACT+United Future = 63 seatsLabour+Prog+Greens = 55 seats Other possibilities could happen. The next days […]
Tags: Elections · John Key · National Party · NZ Government
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.
Sometimes the Left are Right: The Right-Wing 5 Headed Monster
November 14th, 2008 Comments Off on Sometimes the Left are Right: The Right-Wing 5 Headed Monster
One of the things I am loving about not being affiliated to any party is that I can criticise my own ‘side’. It is a liberating thing. I stumbled accross this on The Standard and I have to say I agreed with it. Well, most of it. Definately did not agree with the last line… […]
Tags: John Key · National Party · NZ Government · The Standard