As I write this it is just beginning to be the 4th of July in the United States now, though its been 4th July for some time here in New Zealand. The 4th of July is, of course, Independence Day. Typically in New Zealand, those members of the secular blogosphere, who consider themselves to be [...]
Entries Tagged as 'David Farrar'
Mentionables
October 6th, 2009 6 Comments
Flat out busy as the end of semester approaches and deadlines and exams loom we thought we’d link to some blog posts we’ve recently found interesting rather than actually write anything ourselves: Wintery Knight has a video for which his blog post title sums up the content: MUST-SEE: Megyn Kelly of Fox News exposes the [...]
Tags: ACORN · Bethyada · Cactus Kate · David Farrar · Mentionables · Notre Dame · Samoa Tsunami · The Prosblogion · Voluntary Student Membership · Wintery Knight
The 2009 Forum on the Family: A Review
September 20th, 2009 11 Comments
On Friday Madeleine and I attended the Forum on the Family and the following is our long awaited (and long) review of it. The Forum kicked off with an impassioned talk from Bev Adair. Bev gave a harrowing account of her own story of childhood physical and sexual abuse and subsequent encounter with God that [...]
Tags: Bev Adair · Bob McCoskrie · Bruce Pilbrow · David Farrar · Family First · Greg Fleming · John Key · Maxim Institute · Phil Goff
Pulse Check
September 20th, 2009 3 Comments
We have not fallen off the face of the earth, just too much on. Auckland Bloggers drinks was very cool, extremely packed out and seriously a who’s who of blogging – for a list of who may or may not have been present see Ryan Sproull’s write up of the night. We then went straight [...]
Tags: Andy Moore · Dave Crampton · David Farrar · Forum on the Family
Auckland Bloggers Drinks Feat. David Farrar – This Thursday!
September 14th, 2009 4 Comments
This week a number of non-Auckland bloggers will be in Auckland for the Forum on the Family. So, Annie Fox and I have conspired to hold an impromptu Bloggers Bar Bash this Thursday and David Farrar has confirmed his appearance. What: A social gathering of bloggers and bloupies (those who read, comment on and hang [...]
Tags: Bloggers Drinks · David Farrar
Abortion and Child Abuse
November 27th, 2008 1 Comment
Bloggers WhaleOil and David Farrar are in disagreement over some comments made by Garth George in the New Zealand Herald regarding abortion and child abuse. Garth George says: I have said it before and I say it again: The number one cause of abuse against women and children is abortion. David Farrar says: I disagree. [...]
Tags: Abortion · Child Abuse · David Farrar · Ethics · Feticide · Garth George · New Zealand Herald · Susan Sherwin · Whale Oil
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
Abortion and Brain Death: A Response to Farrar
March 19th, 2008 25 Comments
David Farrar of Kiwiblog weighs in on the abortion debate. I have met David a couple of times and worked with him on several issues and I have a lot of time for him but on this issue we disagree. Given how widely read Farrar’s blog is, and seeing the ethics of killing a fetus [...]
Tags: Abortion · Brain Death · David Farrar · Ethics · Feticide
VSM Bill off to Select Committee
September 25th, 2009 3 Comments
The VSM Bill has passed its first reading and is off to Select Committee. Predictably the student associations have freaked out and David Farrar has an interesting fisk of the various press releases they’ve issued in response here. Given that Madeleine and I were involved in the move to make student associations voluntary in the [...]
Tags: David Farrar · Voluntary Student Membership