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Terrible Tim has launched another campaign to attack the Electoral Finance Act by using as much sexual double-entendre as possible for Truth's Page 2 readers. However this campaign's main aim is to double the weekly's circulation by the end of the year, in which case…
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's not the first aspiring leader to try and present himself as 'down with the bros', but this is truly cringeworthy. Stephen Colbert asks the question everyone's been wondering: More Stephen Colbert over at Comedy Central.
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As you will know National Party Blogger David Farrar gave us a wee razzing for publishing an out of date list of Bob Clarkson's vast parliamentary achievements on Friday. Much high-horsing followed: [DPF: I now understand why you don't post under your full name. You…
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It would appear David Farrar is deeply concerned about the amount of traffic his mate Bill has been drumming up for The Standard this week, judging by his strange attack on our site this evening over a trifling error in our earlier post on Bob…
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New Zealand Labour movement activists will support Irish unionists - the political sort - who wish to remove Reform Prime Minister Massey's statue from Limavady in Northern Ireland's Derry County. Massey is remembered without affection by trade unionists here for the mounted special police known…
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The Dom reports today that the Japanese whaling fleet has ben "spotted steaming towards the Ross Sea" - part of our territorial waters. They're presumably coming here having had their activities in Australian waters declared illegal last week. The Greens have just just called for…
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Jon Stewart had a good piece last night on why we shouldn't just trust the economic and financial "experts". People deserve better from the media than the dehumanising econo-speak about 'soft labour markets' and housing 'corrections' that dominates our Business pages, so it's good to…
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After much speculation, National MP Bob Clarkson has finally announced he will be standing again in Tauranga, apparently to work on housing affordability issues. What a gift. For those who missed it last time, here's Bob's entire contribution to Parliament since August last year: (17…
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After Brash and the extreme right were exposed in The Hollow Men the Nats changed their leader hoping for a fresh start. What's becoming apparent is that National's shady backers haven't changed. The policy and the cash are coming from the same people they always…
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Well it looks like Free Speech Coalition founder Cameron Slater has taken a break from stalking John Minto and photoshopping underage bloggers' faces onto porn and decided to finally publish the Coalition's updated donors list (and only a month after he said he would). Interestingly,…
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Congratultions to Jonny Reid for his win in the Taupo A1GP sprint race on Sunday. He also managed to finish fourth in the feature race which gives the NZ team the series lead. What was also a world first is that all of the teams…
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I see the Free Speech Coalition hasn't learned anything from the ramshackle PR fiasco that was their launch and have posted up another billboard in Invercargill today, this time featuring Robert Mugabe and criticising the government's 'silencing' of Mayor Shadbolt, who is ironically one of…
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Armando Iannucci from The Observer wonders whether he's the only person to find Barack Obama dull: Like Will Smith, who in the new film I Am Legend wakes up to find himself the last man alive in a world of zombies, am I now the…
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Yesterday The Herald reported that: Demographia, an international survey business run by Hugh Pavletich of Christchurch and Wendell Cox of the United States, today issued its fourth annual report, showing New Zealand has slipped drastically on an international scale. Now quite aside from the shoddy…