New Zealand Conservative

Yep, it's that time again. There's going to be another vote in our Parliament tomorrow for advancing the cause of 'Same-sex Marriage', which has brought out a post in favour of redefining marriage from David Farrar, who ends his post with the admonition to his opponents: As I said, there is a global and frankly irreversible trend in the “Western” world on this issue. Future generations will be just as bemused by the fact that once upon a time same sex couples couldn’t marry, as today’s generation are bemused by the fact that once women couldn’t vote. I just wonder in the end, why would you want to be on the wrong side of history ? A post on The American Conservative explains just what is wrong with his labeling those who disagree with redefining marriage as being on the 'wrong side of history', and thus putting himself and those who agree with him on the 'right side': “Right side of history” is a claim deployed in political debate to delegitim...

 Jim Rockford (James Garner) gives an Occupy Wall Street protester a telling off. OK, the show (The Rockford Files) is too old for that, but he may as well be :) h/t Big Hollywood

A lone Anglican Bishop in Britain is telling it like it is - British society is sick and Islam will take over unless something drastic happens. That something would have to be a rediscovery of Britain's Christian roots. In an article in the new political magazine Standpoint, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, the Anglican Bishop of Rochester, pinpointed the "social and sexual revolution" of the 1960s orchestrated by Marxist academics, as the source of the sudden collapse of Christian values. The "endless self-indulgence" of the "new Britain" has resulted in skyrocketing rates of drunkenness, drug abuse, street violence, family breakdown. He added that the solutions offered - talk of "respect, tolerance and good behaviour" popular with Britain's politicians - are "hardly adequate for the task before us". "It is this situation that has created the moral and spiritual vacuum in which we now find ourselves. While the Christi...