Readers who have viewed The Life of Brian (as I have done 20 or so times) will recall how The People’s Front of Judea didn’t just battle the Romans, but also The Judean People’s Front who they regarded as splitters for not being pure enough. I have discovered the real life equivalent – the World […]
The People’s Front of Judea
The People’s Front of Judea
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
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Kemi Badenoch Talks In Depth
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, politics Tags: British politics
Ignore the Thatcher comparison. She’s much less combative for a start, it’s still early in her time in politics at the upper levels – in fact she’s only been an MP since 2017 – and she would not be the first very smart person who fails at political leadership, especially when she won’t get a […]
Kemi Badenoch Talks In Depth
Climate change plans include unrealistic land demands: an area larger than the US, says study
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming
Lack of realism isn’t unusual in anything connected to the so-called net zero policies of climate-obsessed governments. The researchers say unsustainable land use is an inevitable future problem given existing plans, largely due to tree-planting and other forestry targets. – – – For the first time, an international team of scientists have calculated the total […]
Climate change plans include unrealistic land demands: an area larger than the US, says study
Greene Case Could Trigger New Georgia Law on Swatting
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
On Monday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., was again the victim of a swatting call at her north Georgia home. This call, however, had a lethal difference: an officer was involved in a crash in rushing to the scene to join the bomb squad. A woman was killed. The incident will trigger a new Georgia […]
Greene Case Could Trigger New Georgia Law on Swatting
“This is Not the Time for Balance”: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, survivor principle Tags: media bias
When now President-Elect Donald Trump was convicted, the thrill-kill atmosphere around the courthouse and the country was explosive, but no one was more ecstatic than liberal columnist and former prosecutor Harry Litman. The then L.A. Times columnist told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that it was a “majestic day” and “a day to celebrate.” A lawfare advocate, […]
“This is Not the Time for Balance”: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary
102 murders in Sweden by children
12 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order, Sweden
There were 102 murders in Sweden in the last eight months, allegedly committed by children aged 14 or younger. That is a shocking number. Why is it so high. Well in Sweden the age of criminal responsibility is 15. So if you kill someone and are 14 or younger, you can’t be prosecuted. So the […]
102 murders in Sweden by children
#climateemergency
12 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Has an Anonymous Political Donor to Schools Sabotaged National, ACT & NZ First? Will Children be Educated Not to Vote for them, as of Next Week?
12 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, politics - New Zealand Tags: constitutional law
The State-owned Broadcaster has just announced, “Every high school in NZ is set to receive a copy of a new book about the Treaty of Waitangi following a surprise donation by an [anonymous] Auckland couple”. One News says the book, “Understanding Te Tiriti”, is “a guide to NZ’s founding document”. Except that’s not the book’s…
Has an Anonymous Political Donor to Schools Sabotaged National, ACT & NZ First? Will Children be Educated Not to Vote for them, as of Next Week?
The Nobel Prize lectures in economics
12 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice
Supreme Court into the political arena again – this time with MACA
12 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: constitutional law
Gary Judd KC writes – This morning the Law Association’s LawNews published my criticisms of the Supreme Court’s purported judgment in the Edwards case under the title The Edwards judgment: a nullity designed to pre-empt Parliament? I explain that what the Court called a judgment is not a judgment at all, but a pronouncement the Court had no jurisdiction to make. […]
Supreme Court into the political arena again – this time with MACA
Indigenous government
11 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, racial discrimination
Grant Duncan writes: Te Pāti Māori have a policy to “establish a Māori Parliament”. According to the NZ Election Study 2020, however, the proposal for a Māori upper house of parliament is only supported by a minority of Māori, let alone others.* This made me look up the data from the 2020 NZES. Net support for a […]
Indigenous government
More on Business Dynamism
11 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: creative destruction, employment law
Over at the Geek Way, Andrew McAfee has created a startling visualization related to entrepreneurship in the US and EU. The Draghi Report on EU competitiveness is generating a small buzz among economists. One startling claim is thatthere is no EU company with a market capitalisation over EUR 100 billion that has been set up…
More on Business Dynamism
Nobody Wants To Build Wind Farms In The North Sea
10 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, industrial organisation, resource economics, survivor principle Tags: wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Hugh Sharman If wind power was so cheap, you would think they would be queuing up to build them: The Danish Energy Agency has not received a single bid for any of the three offshore wind farms in the North Sea, the agency said in a […]
Nobody Wants To Build Wind Farms In The North Sea
Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students to Make Fentanyl
10 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth disasters, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: Mexico
Criminals turn college campuses into recruitment hubs, recruiting chemistry students in Mexico with big paydays.By Natalie Kitroeff and Paulina Villegas of The NY Times. Excerpts:”In their quest to build fentanyl empires, Mexican criminal groups are turning to an unusual talent pool: not hit men or corrupt police officers, but chemistry students studying at Mexican universities.People…
Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students to Make Fentanyl
JOHN RAINE: Why Engineering Cannot be Decolonised
10 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Concordia University is Decolonising Early 2024, Lawrence Krauss reported [1] that Concordia University in Canada is in the process of decolonising and indigenising its curricula, including Engineering. He noted that this will put Concordia on the Map, but not in a positive way. The new university plan at Concordia is drawing on “principles embodied in…
JOHN RAINE: Why Engineering Cannot be Decolonised
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