Right Thinking: Time To Nuke Global Warming

Hard-hitting conservative columnist Dr. Frank Shizenhausen takes aim at the climate change industry I for one don’t believe a word of this global warming hoax. You have to get up pretty early in the morning to pull the wool over the eyes of this old campaigner. The proposition that the Earth is gradually warming is…

Right Thinking: Finally Some Good Out Of The Quake

Hard-hitting conservative columnist Dr Frank Shizenhausen cuts through the crap and gets to the truth. The 2011 census has been cancelled. The earthquake that destroyed so many lives and wrecked so many buildings finally gave me something to smile about. That hotbed of unreconstructed socialism, the Department of Statistics, can’t run the census because its…

In Which Police Shed A Tear For Tony Veitch

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has recommended Police to apologise to Tony Veitch. They say Mr Veitch should have input into the wording of the apology. Someone has now leaked me a draft of the apology. It is reproduced below. The New Zealand Police would like to apologise unreservedly to Mr Tony Veitch for releasing…

Feeling Sad For Bernie

Pro-democracy protests are taking place all across the Middle East. They have already brought down two governments, and the Gaddafi regime appears to be tottering. There are reports Gaddafi may have fled the country. The price being paid is a terrible one. In both Egypt and Libya military or paramilitary forces loyal to the ruling elites…

The Leaked Welfare Working Group Recommendations

Dear John and Bill We’ve finished our work and the report is on its way. We have considered none some much all of the most reliable evidence on the causes of welfare dependency and how welfare reform can be best achieved. Our three main recommendations are set out in detail below. I thought I’d give…

Hide Pays Tribute

As the people of Christchurch continue to recover from the effects of the September earthquake, ACT leader Rodney Hide took time today to pay tribute to the quake. Mr Hide, who was visiting the city, said there was no doubt that few natural disaster have had such an influence on the direction of Christchurch as…

Right Thinking: Sorry

Dr. Frank Shizenhausen’s latest post shows that even hard-hitting and searing columnists can cross the line Yesterday I wrote a post suggesting that beneficiaries should turn to prostitution and crime to supplement their incomes, rather than rely on food bank handouts. I was wrong and I unreservedly apologise. I know a lot of drug dealers, pimps, petty…

Big Government Destroyed Rome

In trawling the internet for material for a post (that I decided not to write – don’t ask) I found a little gem entitled How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome on the Cato Institute’s website. For those who don’t know what the Cato Institute is, it is a US-based think-tank beloved of libertarians and anyone…

It Could Happen Here Too

The wondrous spectacle of revolutionary passion in Cairo has made me ponder what could occur here to launch a similar uprising. It is clear that the apparatus of the state has one glaring chink in it, a chink large enough for a big long pointy thing to get inside and cause a bit of bother.…