Do you believe in an interventionist God? Well, don't say so ... in case you offend people.
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Teen breeders a national scourge! Time for Mythbusters
So there are all these teen mum banging out babies, right? And it's costing all us taxpayers heaps. It's a modern scandal Something must be done. Now! Well, maybe not...
Read MoreBeyond Today: a values story, and the Greens’ story
Beyond Today: a values story is the Green party’s story. On the Greens’ fortieth birthday, it says Values is a history of which the party should be very proud, and values are the new politics
Read MoreBanks, Whaleoil and two corpses
As they say, a week is a long time in politics
Read MoreWorld News Brief, Tuesday May 8
Elections in France and Greece challenge austerity policies; France's Hollande vows to renegotiate parts of the EU fiscal compact; political uncertainty in Greece threatens to unravel EU-IMF bailout plan; Chinese defense minister set to begin talks in Washington DC today; Korean Customs Service launches crackdown on trafficking of human-flesh capsules; Syrian voters head to the polls; Putin sworn into office for third term as Russian president; and more
Read MoreNational 101: How to hate debt & raise it at the same time
Debt's bad, right? So why is National asking our best and brightest to take on more if they want to get smarter?
Read MoreThese are not the droids you are looking for
Rodney Hide wisely has left Parliament behind him. But that doesn't mean he gets to pretend that he never was in Parliament.
Read MoreSarkozy feints right in campaign’s final act
Could immigration policy save the French incumbent? Nicolas Sarkozy's political future is decided this weekend
Read MoreObama's Osama advert riles Republicans
Republicans are reacting badly to President Obama's apparent politicizing of foreign policy success...how extraordinary.
Read MoreScandals and sideshows, sleaze and slurs
Autumn has become a season of scandals and sideshows – John Key’s casino-convention centre “scandal”, the Banks-Dotcom donation “scandal”, the sideshow of the mythical David Shearer leadership challenge – all soon to be wiped away by the start of the main game: the defining Budget of 2012.
Read MoreDid John Banks travel by cabbage boat after all?
Now we know why John Banks won't tell us about Kim Dotcom's donation. Blame the bloody lawyers ... again.
Read MoreWhy John Key's doing the right thing, but is still in trouble
John Banks' answers to the Dotcom donations have been incredible, but have left the Prime Minister with no choice but to back him. But the differing versions of events are so stark, let's not pretend that everyone can be telling the truth
Read MoreWorld News Brief, Tuesday May 1
Fears over military stoush between US and nuclear-ambitious Iran lessen; US and China plan talks over Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, now in US custody in Beijing; Japan and US to discuss further economic and defense ties; Sudan declares state of emergency; Spain's economy continues to contract; French journalist missing in Colombia, thought to have been abducted by FARC; and more
Read MoreSo let the sun shine in, face it with a grin
Kim Dotcom and John Banks have quite different stories about their relationship. It might matter an awful lot who is telling the truth.
Read MoreNo, today is not our national day
Five reasons why talk of turning ANZAC Day into our national day is not smart
Read MoreAfghanistan – lest we forget
New Zealand troops could be out of Afghanistan next year – but are we stumbling out of one ill-considered international military commitment straight into another, and what happens to our reconstruction and development commitment to the country our troops are leaving?
Read MorePrisoners' treatment humiliating and cruel
Depressed and suicidal prisoners in New Zealand are placed in so-called 'at risk' cells where they are deprived of sleep and subjected to humiliating searches
Read MoreSteven Joyce: SkyCity just pining for the fjords
That SkyCity deal is sweet as. The law hasn't been traded, more pokies won't do any harm and now that the government's saying it might walk away from the deal, well, that doesn't amount to a backdown. Yeah right.
Read MoreThe end of the mental recession?
With houses prices hitting new highs in our main cities, is the sense of economic gloom finally lifting from New Zealand? And what implications might that have for MPs?
Read MoreNo doubt the precogs have already seen this (redux)
When National revealed its "law and order" policy before the last election, I wrote this post on it. Now that Judith Collins reportedly is preparing to introduce legislation to deliver that policy, here are some more thoughts.
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