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    Paying to rebuild – cuts vs levy - by frog



    John Key’s Government is now openly talking about cuts to Working for Families to pay for the cost of earthquake rebuilding. As Russel pointed out yesterday, we think a small, temporary earthquake levy would be a much better and fairer way of funding the rebuilding. Depending on how you set it, it would raise between [...] read more
    March 4, 2011 4:42 pm - 23 Comments
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    Hide nailing down the rats - by frog



    Speaking to TV ONE’s Q and A show today, Rodney Hide revealed that the whole Act caucus and some of the senior party management knew about David Garrett’s fraudulently obtained passport. I’ve avoided commenting on the ongoing train wreck [mixed metaphor corrected] slowly sinking ship that is the ACT Party until now.  They are doing [...] read more
    September 19, 2010 5:00 pm - 10 Comments
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    National XT - by frog



    The real reason Telecom called their new network XT? read more
    February 28, 2010 8:16 am - 8 Comments
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    An extraordinary blogroll consensus for drug law reform - by frog



    This is really quite remarkable. Since the Law Commission released its discussion paper on drug law reform yesterday, an extraordinary consensus across the political blogging spectrum has developed. read more
    February 12, 2010 10:03 pm - 29 Comments
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    Killing in the name of Snoopy - by frog



    No more Snoopy’s Christmas. No more Cliff Richard. How cool is this! The power of the internet has given Rage Against the Machine the No. 1 UK Christmas single: “Killing in the Name” [...] read more
    December 24, 2009 11:10 pm - 20 Comments
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    Blogs I like today - by frog



    A few worthwhile reads from other blogs: Anna McM at the Hand Mirror continues a fascinating discussion on the value, or otherwise, of rugby. You’ll also want to read as background the Hand Mirror’s earlier pieces on the casual way our rugby media has brushed aside accusations of rape against the English rugby team as [...] read more
    June 25, 2008 10:58 pm - 7 Comments
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    Peak oil brings down governments - by frog



    I love this post over at the Standard, with graphs plotting the perfect relationship between the rising price of petrol and George Bush’s falling popularity as US president.  The more petrol prices rise the more Bush’s popularity falls.  Pierson then follows up with a similar graph showing that exactly the same thing is happening for [...] read more
    June 17, 2008 8:55 am - 78 Comments
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    Should the Emissions Trading Scheme fail? - by frog



    After reading this Dominion Post story the Standard is bombastically telling the Greens that they “must” not let the Emissions Trading Scheme fail.  The Standard’s ‘first past the post’ thinking goes like this: that any emissions trading scheme is better than no emissions trading scheme and the Greens’ choice is either yes or no, Labour [...] read more
    May 28, 2008 3:39 pm - 82 Comments
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    Jeanette answers the Standard - by frog



    The Standard has just posted the results of its interview with Jeanette.    Its part of a series it is doing where it interviews party leaders with questions submitted to its blog by readers.  It’s fun to read Jeanette try to squeeze an entire philosophy into her three answers: There are just so many issues that [...] read more
    April 14, 2008 10:59 am - 29 Comments