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Marc My Words: Where is the Victim in all this?
Friday, 18 August 2006, 11:16 am | Marc Alexander
The recent announcement from Labour's Law and Order troika, Clark, Burton and O'Connor, have blitzed the public with a barrage of media releases, declarations and statements of intent. And just to underscore how serious they want us to believe they are, even ... More >>
Marc My Words - 11 August 2006
Friday, 11 August 2006, 12:20 am | Marc Alexander
Science is a wonderful thing. It can offer powerful insights into how things work. But so too is critical thinking. Unfortunately when good science meets lax reasoning we end up with ridiculous ancillary conclusions advanced as 'new thinking'. It is ... More >>
Marc My Words: The NZ Family R.I.P.
Friday, 4 August 2006, 2:04 pm | Marc Alexander
The last seven years have not been good for the Kiwi family. Despite huge budget surpluses, increasing employment opportunities and the creation of yet another bureaucracy supposedly aimed at helping families, the prognosis for our bedrock institution is ... More >>
Marc My Words - 28 July 2006
Friday, 28 July 2006, 10:55 am | Marc Alexander
What I heard was that the Governor-General dissolved Parliament and there would have to be another election. As I listened further for details it soon became apparent that it was not here in New Zealand but Raro where such events were taking place. ... More >>
Marc My Words: Welfare should make well, be fair
Friday, 7 July 2006, 12:13 am | Marc Alexander
An issue has struck this week which deserves some critical thinking: a proposal towards checks and balances on welfare recipients to ensure taxpayers aren't being mugged by individuals taking advantage to produce negative outcomes. This issue has arisen ... More >>
Marc My Words…30 June 2006
Friday, 30 June 2006, 1:30 pm | Marc Alexander
We know the story. Only the names and superficial details have changed. Lillybing. James Whakaruru. There are too many. These are names that should shame us. Shame us into action. Shame us into weeping. And now we have the Kahui twins. More >>
Marc My Words: War not words to fight crime
Friday, 30 June 2006, 12:33 am | Marc Alexander
We know the story. Only the names and superficial details have changed. Lillybing. James Whakaruru. There are too many. These are names that should shame us. Shame us into action. Shame us into weeping. And now we have the Kahui twins. More >>
Marc My Words - 23 June 2006
Friday, 23 June 2006, 1:31 pm | Marc Alexander
The loss of some rights used to be part of the penalty for breaking the law. We saw it as fair and a just price for wrongdoing. But we such ideas are not in vogue anymore. We shun the idea of shame and eschew blame as reasonable 'costs' for making the wrong ... More >>
Marc My Words: When programs in way of commercial
Friday, 16 June 2006, 12:48 am | Marc Alexander
The government continues to filch our money to spend on things best left in the hands of private industry. Consider the decision to go digital with our free to air television services. Sounds great in theory huh? More >>
Marc My Words - 2 June 2006
Friday, 2 June 2006, 12:53 am | Marc Alexander
A socialist is someone who arrives at a bring-a-plate function with an empty plate and a big spoon. More >>
Marc My Words: An obscene and obese Budget
Friday, 19 May 2006, 3:01 pm | Marc Alexander
Isn't the point of a budget to live within your means and not everybody else's? Nothing makes a budget look sicker than high living and that's exactly what Cullen and the Labour socialists delivered yesterday. After filching a record $8.48 billion surplus ... More >>
Marc My Words: Bad Ideas
Friday, 12 May 2006, 11:34 am | Marc Alexander
There's a lot to get angry about these days. Open the pages of your daily newspaper or tune in to your preferred newsreader and you're likely to come away with the desire to shake your head, roll your eyes skyward and head to the liquor cabinet for a decent ... More >>
Marc My Words: The 'nut-brigade' are at it again
Friday, 21 April 2006, 2:41 pm | Marc Alexander
In the rush to legislate on the few remaining liberties we have left, clearly some won't be satisfied until we reach the point where we dare not even venture to the toilet until an official spokesperson from the ministry of ablutions gives us the ... More >>
Marc My Words - 7 April 2006
Friday, 7 April 2006, 10:42 am | Marc Alexander
Imagine a game where you were a government. Imagine also that the object of the game was to amass as much power over the people as possible in the shortest possible time - with the only catch being that you couldn't use military force and every few years ... More >>
Marc my Words: Tax - a state sponsored mugging
Friday, 24 March 2006, 10:25 am | Marc Alexander
Trying to justify the amount of taxes we pay, other than avoiding trouble from the IRD, is like searching for a gas leak in a dark room with a lighted candle. There can be no reasoning that will satisfy everyone because what constitutes a reasonable ... More >>
The price of justice must not be short-changed
Friday, 10 March 2006, 4:37 pm | Marc Alexander
It is an oft assumed dictum that criminals should not be able to look to the government to be a co-conspirator to their crimes. More >>
Marc Alexander: Cheer up, the worst is yet to come
Friday, 3 March 2006, 10:55 am | Marc Alexander
The Labour government is unraveling faster than a carpet bound dish of linguini. Handed the Treasury benches by the slimmest of margins, the air of confidence over the last six years now more closely resembles a sustained belch in search of a breath ... More >>
Marc My Words – Against Section 59 Propaganda
Friday, 24 February 2006, 11:09 am | Marc Alexander
The onslaught on the Kiwi family rolls on unabated. If families manage to survive their enslavement by the driftnet of dependency and welfarism enforced by a punishing taxation rate that saps the aspiration of middle New Zealand, then the assault on ... More >>
Marc My Words - Open Prisons? NO!
Friday, 17 February 2006, 4:54 pm | Marc Alexander
The Labour government has, for the last six years, tried to paint itself as tough on crime and, to be fair, there have been a few baby steps in that direction. Some tightening up on 'boy racers', higher penalties on pornography and pedophilia, and ... More >>
Marc My Words: Respect arguments not threats
Friday, 10 February 2006, 12:27 am | Marc Alexander
It seems the world has gone berserk over a bunch of cartoons and the media are getting the blame. A collection of Western leaders are doing a 'Chamberlain' by appealing to sensitivities that we do not even accord ourselves. Plea's to restrain 'freedom ... More >>
