Phil and Luke are brothers, libertarians, Vic Uni students and flatmates based in Wellington, New Zealand. Their blog, Pacific Empire, covers topics including politics, libertarianism, international relations, psychology, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, art and history. See the About page for more information.
Luke is the Libertarianz Media Coordinator, while Phil was the Hutt South candidate in 2005 and is now Spokesman for Deregulation of Education.
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Welfare and Violence: The Elephant In The Room
“The headlines in recent days say it all: ‘Stabbing In Central Auckland’ - ‘30 police hunt Wanganui man’s killers’ - ‘Fatal Stabbing In Invercargill’. Horrific violent crimes are shattering the lives of ordinary New Zealanders,” laments Libertarianz spokesman Luke Howison. “According […]
The article as it appeared in the Herald today (click for larger version).
Yesterday I talked to Craig, a reporter from the Herald, who noticed a Libertarianz sign on Quay St (Well done, Auckland Libz!) with the “As Demanded by Helen Clark, 4 Cromwell Street, Mt Eden, Auckland” label. It was this label that he […]
In the previous post, we made full-mash homebrew beer.
Two weeks later, our fermenters have stopped bubbling, and they are full of sweet, sweet beer.
Unfortunately, the beer is flat and warm. What can we do to rectify this unfortunate situation?
Ah yes, we can bottle the beer.
About a year ago I put up a post explaining how to make homebrew beer, the kit way. Making beer from kits is easy and fast, and you don’t need much equipment. The beer, however, while easily equal to Tui, Heineken and the like, fails to measure up to the real beers like Duvel and […]
The police officers killed by Stan Graham in 1941, in the deadliest incident in the history of the New Zealand Police Force.
Last week Sergeant Don Wilkinson, of a secret police unit involved in surveillance of drug manufacturers, was shot dead on a South Auckland street. This was an awful tragedy for the New Zealand police. […]
Kiwiblog reports that Helen Clark has just announced the election is to be held on November 8.
That gives us eight weeks.
It’s enough to make you vote Libertarianz!
This is a cross-post from a thread about heroism at SOLO Passion (Sense of Life Objectivism), an Objectivist forum. I do not identify myself as an Objectivist, merely a libertarian who found Atlas Shrugged inspiring.
I think there are at least two kinds of heroes promoted here: Heroes of talent, who have pushed their […]