Hat-tip someone ...

What is this all about then?

http://johnansell.wordpress.co...

(Hat tip Lindsay Mitchell)

It's interesting to ponder the temporal distance between New Zealand, well on its way to arbitrary government, and China, a country run on arbitrary

This is not only relevant to Canada. (Qualification: I'm a libertarian, not conservative).

From: http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/f...

(Paid NRB content so you'll need to buy a subscription):

Quoting a portion:

My letter of this lunch-time to the Press:

From: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/busi...

Willie Jackson comes off as a 'nice bloke', but in the cold heart of every Lefty there is always the brute thug:

For the first time since becoming leader of the Labour party he made some decisions on Q&A this morning ... and they were all the wrong ones.

From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cul...

Almost as good as my own piece regarding the attack the National Socialists are making on the free press, and showing my satire was closer to reality than not, David Parker has written a very good piece on the access the State wants to ensure for itself, by immoral law, to a journalist's sources.

All I've said is this, though it's never been said so well as the first time:

I was first tipped onto this story by a source that does not want to be named ...

Wait! Wait a jack booting minute.

“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality”

Ayn Rand

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Maritime Union national president Garry Parsloe:

Died suddenly today: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2012...

Always enjoyed Owen's comments around the blogs. I'll miss him.

From: http://www.stuff.co.nz/nationa...

Here's how capitalism and private charity can do more for a kid's future than any benefit from the welfare state.

A half hour interview with Dotcom well worth watching: http://ondemand.tv3.co.nz/Camp...

Welcome to SOLO

There's not much I disagree with so far in your posts, but your bio is, 'interesting'.

The Universe has an emergent intelligence, known to me as "God."

If blog, The Hand Mirror, represents feminism, then there is surely no hope for it.

It's been a great week for Big Brother.

A client has just brought to my attention one of the most desperate and mean spirited changes to tax (administration) legislation I’ve seen for a while, and one that had bypassed my attention – not hard given the huge and constant changes to our taxing legislation that have been foisted on the taxpayer by you both, as if trading through a recession weren't hard enough.

This is simply my post to the NBR thread on this topic, thus it is not fully formed, and I have no time to make it so. It is a response to a mercantilist supporter of the High Court decision:

As reported here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/a...

Every Western country has been engaged in a steadily deteriorating civil war, wherein civility has been jackbooted over as Big Brother States, via the modern instruments of the new Police States, the

Mark Hotchin is still not charged with anything ( http://www.solopassion.com/nod... ) but Kim Dotcom is eclipsing him as the new test of how far New Zealand is down the road to our serfdom under a

With all the economic problems the UK has, that government is still wasting taxpayer money on wowsing:

Someone needs to give Independent senator Nick - appropriately rhymes with xenophobe - Xenophon a copy of Atlas Shrugged:

Damien's piece worth a read. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opin...

Look at this: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/n...