New Zealand Conservative

Chris Trotter's propaganda piece below, published in the Dominion Post today and retyped here for your reading pleasure by yours truly, is attempting to paint Labour as the innocent victim of Auditor-General, Kevin Brady, who maliciously "fined" Labour $800,000 that he knew Labour could not pay back. What a piece of work. Mushrooms and Toadstools What are we to make of Labour's plan to have political parties partially funded by the taxpayer? Will NZ democracy be improved, or weakened, by transferring the responsibility for resourcing these crucial electoral organisations from civil society to the state? The answer, as is so often the case, is both "yes" and "no". State funding has become a matter of necessity for the Labour Party because of the unprecedented and massive political fines levied on it by the auditor-general in 2006. Future historians' judgements of the auditor-general's actions will probably differ markedly from those of his...

Lucky Bush didn't let this guy out of Guantanamo Bay. Admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told a U.S. military tribunal he personally beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002, the Pentagon revealed Thursday. "I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan," said a Pentagon transcript of Saturday's hearing. "For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head." The admission was part of testimony that was originally removed from a Pentagon transcript of Mohammed's tribunal at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Background on Mohammed) He also said he was the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, attacks. "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z," Mohammed said through a military representative. According to the 26-page transcript, a computer hard drive seized during Mohamme...

In Not PC's latest attack on Christianity , he puts forward the proposition that Christianity is not the base on which Western Civilisation is built. I'll just say briefly now that if the basis of western civilisation can be described as a focus on reason, individualism and happiness on this earth -- ideas that were a product not of theologians but of Classical Greeks, ideas which were fortunately rediscovered for the west in the Renaissance -- then far from being any sort of foundation for these ideas, [C]hristian religion is at odds with all of them... However, I think that "reason, individualism and happiness on this earth" , are an inadequate basis to describe Western Civilisation. So does Hilaire Belloc, as shown by this quote from Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church : The form of any society ultimately depends upon its philosophy, upon its way of looking at the universe, upon its judgement of moral values: that is, in t...

As time goes on, it is becoming more and more apparent that the Soviet Union is not dead - she lives on in what is today's Russia. Disregarding the more threatening actions towards Poland and the Czech Republic for daring to consider being part of an American missile defence shield, the latest is Russia's belligerent stance that many of those that died in the Nazi-run death camp at Auschwitz in Poland were "Soviet citizens". Russia is taking this stance because when the Soviet Union invaded the eastern half of Poland after Hitler took the first step of invading the West, the Soviets called their invasion a "liberation" and that all of Poland's citizens that fell under their jurisdiction became ipso facto Soviet citizens. The Russia of today is continuing this charade. It was a charade. During the Soviet invasion, there was confusion as to whether or not the Soviets were there to help with the defence against the Nazis, or take the opportunity to score...

School Teachers and Parents have created a new contact sport called "Dodge the Cane". Students are evidentially keen to play. A contract is signed by the child (or an X marks the spot with a suitable witness) saying they agree to play this new "sport" called "dodge the cane". The alternative game is "no TV until age 18" which hasn't seemed to catch on, as all children seem to much prefer the first option. Given that children freely consent (after all, children are the same as adults and can be reasoned with), a prominent lawyer has confirmed that the State has no ability to interfere. Children who have signed up for this game say that it's good that it doesn't interfere with their ability to watch TV and get pocket money, and they accept the occasional sore bum or hand in playing this highly exciting and fun contact sport. The more experienced you get at it, the greater the handicap system. Adding weights to the feet and hands m...