This Paul Quinn has (so far) not disenfranchised anyone. Unlike the other one. Former MP Paul Quinn has decided not to return to Parliament. Quinn was in line to replace outgoing National list MP Dr Jackie Blue, but has decided he has achieved everything he can in politics. Quinn said he wanted to spend time…
The ugly face of socialism Energy Minister Steven Joyce has condemned the “socialist lunacy” of both Labour and the Greens, after Labour Party leader David Shearer was spotted buying coffee for two fellow MPs. Joyce said a member of his staff had seen Shearer in the queue at a popular Wellington café last week, placing an…
Where will this end? It starts with an electricity policy proposal by two political parties, then they nationalise the supermarkets, and before you know it you’re not allowed to have babies unless you’re a member of the Party and have sworn an oath to honour the memory of Comrade Stalin.Won’t somebody think of the children? Unless…
I don’t know about you, but I have a weakness for pies. Not those absurd fruit-filled atrocities, but real meaty pies, full of gravy and chunks of dead animal. Yum! But despite my love for pies I hardly ever touch the things, because I know from experience that the moment the pastry touches my lips…
Steven Joyce yesterday claimed that the plan by Labour and the Greens to reform the electricity sector was from “the North Korean School of Economics”. But is this true? Let us examine the facts: A state-owned organisation will purchase power from power generators. These generators will be a mixture of private, state owned, and partly-state-owned…
UNHOLY LEGISLATORS, INSTRUMENTS OF SATAN! BEWARE! We are NO LONGER PREPARED to stand by and let the sacred institution of marriage be DISHONOURED. God ordained that true marriage may only take place between a MAN and a WOMAN, and to allow a man to marry a man, or a woman to marry a woman, is…
Dr Jonathan Coleman says the Marriage Equality Bill fails to balancethe rights of the Danish Crown with those of the German Confederation One of the National Party MPs who plans to vote against the Marriage Equality Bill says there has been insufficient time devoted during the debate to the Schleswig-Holstein Question.The bill looks set to…
Sometimes when you’re in the middle of a pitched battle over what some political figure did or said, it can be easy to lose sight of the greater picture. Perspective can be lost when you are flinging insults and retorts at your enemies, thrusting furiously at their weak spots, and denigrating their ideologies. When your…
This cake has nothing to do with marriage equality. But it looks like a nice cake. This post was originally published four weeks ago, just before the second reading of the Marriage Equality Bill. But it is as relevant as it was back then. It’s a powerful reminder that we should be careful what we…
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…
Imperator Fish 
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