In my previous posts, What is an Argument? and Assessing Arguments, I spelt out some basics as to what an argument is and how to assess arguments. There I noted that a sound argument is one where the premises of the argument is true and the argument is valid. It is impossible for an argument which [...]
Entries Tagged as 'John Key'
Auckland Bloggers Drinks Feat. Pamela Anderson and John Key – This Thursday!
September 25th, 2009 7 Comments
Following on from the success of last week’s packed out impromptu Auckland Bloggers drinks featuring blogging celebrity David Farrar, Peter Cresswell and I have decided that we should feature celebrity guests more often. This week Pamela Anderson is in Auckland for Fashion Week and John Key is back from New York, fresh from his success [...]
Tags: Anna Woolf · Bloggers Drinks · John Key · Pamela Anderson · Peter Cresswell
Christchurch Event: John Boscawen, David Garrett, Larry Baldock on s59
September 16th, 2009 4 Comments
Recently I attended a public meeting in support of John Boscawen’s Bill to restore the right of parents to use reasonable force for the purposes of correction in the course of parenting removed by the current s59 of the Crimes Act. This Bill will be voted on shortly and for those of us who voted [...]
Tags: David Garrett · John Boscawen · John Key · Larry Baldock · Referenda · s59 · Smacking
A Review of Last Night’s Boscawen, McCoskrie, Evans, Baldock Meeting UPDATED
September 8th, 2009 46 Comments
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Last night’s meeting with John Boscawen, Bob McCoskrie, Jim Evans and Larry Baldock on amending s59 of the Crimes Act to decriminalise the use of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction was encouraging. The main themes I came away with from each speaker were: John Boscawen – ACT Party MP John Boscawen has [...]
Tags: Bob McCoskrie · Fitzgerald v Muldoon · Jim Evans · John Boscawen · John Key · Larry Baldock · Referenda · s59 · Smacking
Boscawen’s Smacking Bill drawn from the Ballot
August 26th, 2009 No Comments
In impeccable timing, this afternoon I heard the announcement that ACT MP John Boscawen’s Bill to amend Section 59 of the Crimes Act, in line with the Borrows amendment that defined reasonable force, had been drawn from the ballot. However, John Key swiftly announced that National would not back it to Select Committee trotting out [...]
Tags: John Boscawen · John Key · Smacking
Key and Goff on Family Matters at the 2009 Forum on the Family
July 30th, 2009 3 Comments
The 2009 Forum on the Family is nearly upon us. This year John Key and Phil Goff are slated to face-off, Lord of the NZ Blogosphere, David Farrar, will be making an appearance, details of the rest of this years lineup are on the poster (click on the image if you cannot read it). You [...]
Tags: Forum on the Family · John Key · Phil Goff
Unions and Regard for Innocent Third-Parties
December 13th, 2008 6 Comments
[Written from my laptop after being infuriated by an article in the Herald - not really back yet] [No, neither should you be - Matt] He’s only been Prime Minister for a month but John Key is already putting up with multiple protests at his home; most of which occur when he is away so [...]
So What if She Wore the Same Jacket Twice?
November 23rd, 2008 6 Comments
When I first read reports on the blogosphere about the NZ Herald commenting on Bronagh Key’s wearing the same jacket twice, I thought that the article everyone was linking to must have been related to John Key’s swearing in, where she wore the offending jacket the second time and the fashion comments had to be [...]
Tags: Bronagh Key · Feminism · John Key · National Party
Sometimes the Left are Right: The Right-Wing 5 Headed Monster
November 14th, 2008 No Comments
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
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