My attention was directed to a mainstream media article on the flag debate written by one Grant McLachlan, who is described as “a former Parliamentary researcher and a National Party campaign director.” I found some of the comments in the article quite interesting, in that they provide a few reasons as to why the National…
Whereas I’m not surprised to see a Kiwiblog post on Donald Trump that basically parrots lines from the US political classes’ strategy manual, I was surprised to read a comment from Mr Farrar that attempted to link Trump to Hitler. He says “A mass deportation of 11 million people, some of whom were citizens, would bring…
Impressed to read David Farrar’s post the other day stating the “State should not own commercial companies” It made me think for a second what the difference might be between a “commercial” company and any other company, but I couldn’t come up with an answer. He went on to say- I don’t want my taxes…
ACT describes itself as a FREE MARKET POLITICAL PARTY. Why then would it want to make euthanasia the focus of its political campaigning? (This is not a discussion on the merits or otherwise of euthanasia. Its about ACT’s political mission) The letters ACT stand for the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, founded in 1993 by…
To be fair, Mr. Farrar did split his post into two parts. The first part praised Abbott, the second criticised him. Except that the second part merely repeated a partisan meme broadcast by a biased Australian media, and if you doubt this, please allow me to bring a few things to your notice- Labor Prime…
I’ve blogged on this before, so was surprised to read David Farrar’s claim in his most recent posting on the Sabin issue. Mr Farrar says this- It’s pretty simple. If the Prime Minister had known Sabin was under Police investigation in October when select committee chairs were decided, then there is no way you would…
Reporter Duncan Garner writes today how David Farrar snitched to his boss about a post party romantic escapade in a government building. Garner writes- How could she possibly know what I had got up to last night? There was no social media then, our cellphones didn’t send photos and the internet barely worked. But she’d…
