Right Thinking: This is what happens when we give them a voice

No-nonsense authoritarian libertarian Dr. Frank Shizenhausen is back with another hard-hitting post The coach of the Australian football team, Holger Osieck, is in trouble for saying that “women should shut up in public’”. It’s football, so the self-serving self-appointed guardians of political correctness were hardly going to miss the opportunity to put the boot in.They…

Right Thinking: an open letter to the New Zealand Herald

No-nonsense authoritarian libertarian columnist Dr. Frank Shizenhausen is back, with another hard-hitting attack on the media Dear Sirs I was hopeful that the New Zealand Herald’s “You be the judge” project would help to transform the way we think about justice issues. But I have been left bitterly disappointed. The Herald’s effort to place readers in…

Right Thinking: Fight The Facts

Hard-hitting conservative columnist Dr Frank Shizenhausen returns after a long break People have been jumping all over Garth McVicar, head of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, after he claimed in a select committee submission that gay marriage would lead to more crime. It’s shocking the way a good man like McVicar can’t even make an argument entirely devoid of evidence,…

Right Thinking: A Stark Choice

Everyone’s favourite libertarian authoritarian returns with a hard-hitting column, and reminds readers that it’s only a Godwin if the person’s not actually a Hitler in disguise. Watching the national conventions of the two main American political parties these last two weeks has been a chilling reminder to me of the peril the world stands in. America is confronted with a…

Right Thinking: My Timeshare Plan

Everyone’s favourite authoritarian libertarian is back. The French have this week again made us wonder why we bothered to liberate them in 1944. They have elected a socialist President, and it seems now that they don’t want to take their much-needed austerity medicine. When I think of all the sacrifices past generations have made in…

Right Thinking: Frank’s Law

Hard-hitting conservative columnist Dr Frank Shizenhausen returns with a powerful new column There’s a petition under way to demand a toughening of our bail laws. This is timely, because it has been a long time since we last had a debate on our bail laws—at least a couple of weeks. Proponents of “Christie’s Law” want to…