Jack Yan on Vox

Leadership comes from the grass roots, not institutions

2008-05-09T11:17:21Z

[Cross-posted] Sometimes I surprise myself on what comes up in blog comments. In a thread about the Iraq war and the short memories of nations over on Vox, I wrote the following. And as I wrote, I believed this to be a possible truth. To go forth...

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David Horowitz on the reasons for the Iraq War

2008-05-08T06:38:19Z

Whether you support the war in Iraq or you don’t—and here in New Zealand we have the luxury to criticize the United States—David Horowitz’s recollection (video found originally on Humbled Infidel’s blog) of why the US went in certainly correlates ...

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Excerpts from the last Dame Anita Roddick interview

2007-09-11T14:55:01Z

Anita Roddick was an inspirational lady. Here are some quotations from her last interview in The Daily Telegraph. On the US wealth divide It’s a society that is absolutely separate, it’s a gated community living next door to a society that is imp...

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One page is too hard for Calif. GOP to write

2007-09-09T05:29:18Z

I know Gov Schwarzenegger divides opinions, but I was interested to read this in the Mercury today: Schwarzenegger recently proposed distilling the state GOP platform—the party's statement of core values—into as little as a single page focusing o...

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Out of the One funk

2007-06-02T13:17:54Z

New Zealand is a year behind on Life on Mars, and I note from a TV One ad just now that Derren Brown’s Séance will air next week. I know we are necessarily behind the UK on British programmes, but I don’t remember us being this far behind since th...

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