However, the fact is that most white supremacists usually have criminal convictions for assault, dysfunctional upbringings, alcohol and drug problems and gravitated toward a subculture that reinforces their disturbed families of origin and violent ...
Dear Don: Go away. You're in charge of an electorally unviable political party, prone to dysfunctional outbursts of fratricidal infighting. Moreover, you are an inflexible ideologue and your hardline neoconservatism is not what New Zealand needs right now....
... Tahu ancestry in my genes. [Craig - can you try posting test...
To be perfectly fair to the Harawiras, though, Tariana Turia has some strong detractors within Maori communities. She is seen as a social conservative ideologue who treats takatapui and whakawahine as second-class citizens and who used the seabed and ...
One hopes that no-one plans going out on March 15th (hat tip: J. Caesar) [Lynn - why do all of Craig's comments end up in moderation? I can't see any reason. Just released the last 3. -- r0b] [lprent: I have no idea. I can't see a reason on a first look ...
We need a written constitution to counterbalance excessive executive and legislative government power through introducing counterweights amenable to challenge, amendment and/or curtailment from representative interests in civil society (ie the Canadian ...
Chance would be a fine thing. I will certainly be voting left this election, but unfortunately, history suggests that there's a very remote possibility that the Key administration will be defeated after a single term of office. No New Zealand government ...
Nah, that's not genetic linkage, it's merely the Transnational Baldist Conspiracy to Obliterate Western Civilisation Plc at work. Have you noticed you seem to have to be a follicularly challenged bloke to get anywhere in the ACT Party these days? And that ...
Stop strange-sect marriages NOW!!!
Added to which, here's a bright spot in the clouds. It tends to be an unwritten rule of New Zealand politics since the seventies that any incumbent government ends up restricted to three terms of office unless it's very unlucky. The first term is incumbent...
Matthew, I tend to think that this may be confused and muddle-headed ACT populist faction payback for what happened to Hide, seen as their standard-bearer, against Brash. I wondered where they'd gone to after the coup, and now it seems that they may be ...
I don't think there'll be any possibility of an LGM coalition until after Turia retires. She's a hardline social conservative and she still resents Labour for the S&F legislation. If Labour backed away from that albatross, I suspect Sharples would relent, ...
I suspect it'll be Joyce. The liberal Nats can't stand English's social conservatism and aren't willing to give him a second chance after his 2002 fiasco. Added to which, The Donald wants him gone too, so if ACT's still there and the Nats have to rely on ...
Incidentally, given that ACT voted against stronger dog control legislation while Prebbo was in charge, does anyone appreciate the irony involved in the headline?
I wondered how long it would take for Scotland to start drifting away from the rest of the UK after the Con/LibDem coalition announcement, and now the SNP victory will probably accelerate the process.
I'm somewhat perplexed at what exactly the Rodneyites think they're doing. In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, one must conclude that this rumour isn't true, so they'll probably be impaled on the sharp end of a defamation charge. It also goes ...
Unfortnately, this is one of the side-effects of the vitriol and militancy of the hardcore Christian fundamentalist lobby. It does tend to spark off equally vocal antagonistic responses. Actually, I felt that hoarding was a model of restraint, compared to ...
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