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McBLOG: Activists try to redefine “paedophilia”
There is a severely misguided and disturbing effort to normalise sexual attraction to children. The movement is even going so far as to claim that ...
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McBLOG: NZ Doctors Mag Promotes Polyamory
The latest edition of the magazine for the Royal NZ College of GPs features a disturbing article which promotes the use of non-gendered terms such ...
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McBLOG: ‘Meat’ Critical Theory
In a hilarious (meant to be serious) speech at a recent Oxford Union debate, vegan feminist, author & animal rights advocate Carol Adams used Critical ...
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McBLOG: COVID – I’ve had it!
What’s it like having COVID? Bob reckons it’s way way worse than man-flu. Hear his experience. (Note – do not take anything Bob says as ...
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McBLOG: When are protests “ok”?
We take a look at a few protests that have happened recently, and ask the question – why is the anti-mandate protest being labelled with ...
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McBLOG: This Government is obsessed with abortion
At a time when there are so many health-based funding and resourcing needs throughout New Zealand for beds, ICUs, doctors, nurses, local GPs and mental ...
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McBLOG: Free Speech on Trial in Finland
Päivi Räsänen is a medical doctor, mother of five, and grandmother of seven. She is married to a pastor. She is a Member of the ...
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McBLOG: ‘No jab no job’ policy losing support – Poll
A new nationwide poll has found increasing opposition for the “no jab no job” mandates, increasing support for rapid antigen testing for unvaccinated kiwis so ...
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McBLOG: A new survey shows who’s actually protesting at Parliament
Curia Market Research (on behalf of The Platform) has just released a survey of the people protesting at Parliament Grounds. Contrary to the narrative of ...
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FAMILY MATTERS: Keep going, even if…
The new law banning ‘conversion therapy’ which was passed in Parliament this week will criminalise certain expressions of parental love, prayer, personal choice and preaching, ...
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McBLOG: Promised benefits of legalising cannabis are hot air
How harmful is cannabis? Does legalisation actually work? The LA Times newspaper endorsed the referendum ‘Prop 64’ in 2016 which resulted in cannabis being legalised ...
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McBLOG: “Woman” – an endangered species?
Adele won the “Artist of the Year” at the Brits Awards in the UK last week. But she caused a furore with her speech when ...
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McBLOG: Who defines “misinformation”?
The media and politicians seem to be quick to label things as “misinformation” and “disinformation”? But who defines what is “misinformation”? Watch some very interesting ...
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McBLOG: Whoopi’s ‘whoops’ on Critical Race Theory
Whoopi Goldberg is a big supporter of Critical Race Theory – but Whoopi did a whoops recently – and it showed just how flawed Critical ...
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McBLOG: 87,000-strong “Don’t Divide Us” petition tabled in Parliament
The petition which was launched at the beginning of November last year says: “We oppose the ‘no jab no job’ policy, which will create a ...
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McBLOG: ‘Celebrating” an abortion? Not for one person
“This Is Us” actress Milana Vayntrub decided to share the details of her abortion story because she’s haunted by the prospect of the U.S. Supreme ...
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WATCH: Top Family Issues 2022
Parliament is back in session this week for the first time in 2022. Now you might rightly think that the priorities for the Government are ...
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McBLOG: ‘Woke’ Media
Are you concerned the media industry has gone extremely woke? There’s definitely concerns, but it’s not us saying this. It’s people from the media! Are ...
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McBLOG: Euthanasia’s slippery slope – already
Euthanasia has only been legal in New Zealand for less than three months, but already we are seeing some disturbing trends, including the speed with ...
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McBLOG: Naughty, naughty words
Are you guilty of using “non-inclusive” language? Naughty you!! Get woke with woke words. The University of Washington in Seattle has released a list of ...
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FAMILY MATTERS: Euthanasia & The Risk For Vulnerable Populations
Euthanasia is now legal in New Zealand. In this episode of “Family Matters”, Bob McCoskrie spoke to Professor David Kissane, an Australian cancer psychiatrist whose ...
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McBLOG: “Haneen Zrieka – and the hypocrisy of the media”
You probably aren’t that familiar with the name Haneen Zrieka. Haneen Zrieka is Aussie Rules’s first female Muslim player. She announced that she would not ...
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McBLOG: “Jessica then Tova” – the real background story
“Jessica then Tova” is now almost as much kiwi slang as the phrase “yeah right”. There’s even merchandise available based around it. But did you ...
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McBLOG: The media think 1,200 is bigger than 87,000
Last week, three petitions were presented. One with 1200 signatures, one with 23,000, and one with a whopping 87,000! One of them didn’t get a ...
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McBLOG: Pew Research asked – what makes life meaningful?
What do people value in life? How much of what gives people satisfaction in their lives is fundamental and shared across cultures, and how much ...
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McBLOG: When we confuse biology, we destroy sports
Sporting competitions from time immemorial have segregated men and women. To do otherwise would give men an unfair advantage due to physical difference. But in ...
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McBLOG: California (Big Tech & Hollywood) love abortion
Despite all the more pressing social needs such as crime, homelessness, drug abuse and inequality, California wants to create a “sanctuary” for abortion. Not only ...
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McBLOG: ‘Critical theory’ caught out in a big way
“Critical race theory” is a radical and dangerous new way of thinking about human identity and value. Depending on your race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, gender ...
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McBLOG: Abortion rights are pro-choice men’s rights
Bob shares an enlightening video about abortion rights that he received over the weekend. He also exposes the confusion and contradictions in the weekend column ...
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McBLOG: Biology gets voted out of Parliament
Parliament this week passed a law that renders birth certificates as meaningless, and which continues the relentless push to nullify biological sex, and the scientific ...
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FAMILY MATTERS: Why the prostitution law is failing New Zealand
If you listened to the government or the media, you would possibly think that the decriminalisation of prostitution in 2003 was fantastic for women, and ...
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McBLOG: ‘Conversion therapy’ bans in Canada & UK
As well as NZ, both Canada and the UK have been considering ‘conversion therapy’ bans. While the UK is canvassing the opinions of the full ...
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McBLOG: Another government strategy doomed to fail
A new well-intentioned Government strategy aims to eliminate family and sexual violence. Unfortunately, it fails to deal with a number of ‘elephants in the room’, ...
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McBLOG: Lies, damned lies and statistics
When the Government is developing policies around important social issues, the statistics that are being used to justify the policy should add to the credibility ...
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McBLOG: NZ’s radical abortion law is already showing its effect
In 2020, the majority of politicians (who ironically are already born) voted in one of the world's most extreme abortion laws - but they did ...
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McBLOG: A quality & fact check on that vax video
A hip-hop music video – Vax the Nation – is supposed to be a positive contribution to the vaccination campaign. But what we found was ...
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McBLOG: Why are we getting conflicting health messages?
The Ministry of Health quietly released an important and welcome document regarding the rights of unvaccinated people to be able to access healthcare. It also ...
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McBLOG: The media’s war on Christianity
Most of the mainstream media were in full attack mode on the new leader of the National Party – because of his Christian faith and ...
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McBLOG: NZ’s COVID church rules compared to overseas
On Friday, NZ moves into the traffic light system. There will be significant restrictions placed on church attendance. How do they compare to how other ...
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FAMILY MATTERS: The ‘3 Strikes’ law protects families
Gang-related shootings and the use of firearms in general – including against our police – have become disturbingly normal. In 2020, gun crime hit a ...
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McBLOG: The next National Party leader
Which candidate for the National Party leadership holds values which will bring the party back to its conservative roots. And what should be the priorities ...
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McBLOG: Riding Roughshod Over Democracy
Political commentators labelled the actions of the Government this week as a “constitutional disgrace”. Some say they’re “running roughshod over democracy” What were they referring ...
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McBLOG: What do kiwis really think about 3 Strikes Law?
The Government wants to scrap the ‘Three Strikes’ law, saying that “the public don’t like this law”. A poll has found that just 25% of ...
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McBLOG: (Some) media are raising the red flag
Some in the media are even raising the red flag about the Government controlling the narrative – via the media! We should all be concerned ...
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FAMILY MATTERS: How to respond to the ‘transgender trend’
Stella O’Malley experienced gender dysphoria throughout her childhood and wanted to identify as a boy, but when she hit puberty, she realised that biology was ...
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