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in discrimination, gender, law and economics, politics - USA, sports economics Tags: free speech, gender gap, Olympic Games, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
On Saturday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued a surprising correction after claiming for a week that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting were actually born women and have Differences in Sexual Development (DSD), a range of rare conditions in which a person’s genitalia do not necessarily match with their chromosomes or hormone…
Transgender or Intersex? Confusion Reigns Over the Gender Status of Two Olympic Boxers
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in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: atomic bombings, World War II
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in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: civil disobedience, climate activists, climate alarmism, crime and punishment, law and order
American voters who have bought tote bags decorated with pictures of Mrs Clinton or sweatshirts promoting abortion rights have inadvertently funded disruption in the UK.
Exposing the Financial Web: Clinton-Run Organizations Funding Climate Activists
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in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
from David Lillis, John Raine, Peter Schwerdtfeger, Rex Ahdar, Cathy Downes The recent news that GeoNet has been merging science with the myth, mysticism and legend of Māori traditional knowledge in their 2024 Geohazard Information has provoked a scathing response from international commentator, Professor Jerry Coyne (University of Chicago). This follows close behind publicity around…
Restoring the Standing and Reputation of Science in New Zealand: a Letter to the Coalition Government
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in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: JFK, World War II
On the night of August 1-2, 1943, during World War II, Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, future President of the United States, experienced a defining moment in his military career when his patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, was destroyed in the Solomon Islands. This event not only showcased Kennedy’s leadership and bravery but also became a significant […]
JFK & PT 109
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in environmental economics, global warming Tags: ice ages
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Japan, World War II
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply
Here’s a lively AIER podcast on Build, Baby, Build with the one and only Veronique de Rugy. Best French libertarian since Bastiat? Décider vous-même!P.S. Capla-Con 2024 starts two weeks from tomorrow in Fairfax, Virginia. You’re all invited! Feel free to coordinate ride-sharing in the comments.
Talking BBB with Veronique de Rugy
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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The Herald reports: Green MP Julie Anne Genter has been found in contempt of the House for “intimidating” behaviour directed at another MP and it has been recommended she be censured. A report just released by the Privileges Committee, which assessed Genter’s actions in the House in May, recommends the Rongotai MP be “censured by the House for acting […]
Will there be any consequences from the Greens for JAG?
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in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism Tags: women's liberation
A taxi driver in Sydney told us he was fasting for Ramadan and it was harder in the southern hemisphere when it was summer when the time between sunrise and sunset was longer. Discussion continued on what was required of a good Muslim and got on to why women are required to cover up. He […]
Men less self-controlled than dogs?
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in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
According to Wikipedia: ‘The 100,000-year problem refers to the lack of an obvious explanation for the periodicity of ice ages at roughly 100,000 years for the past million years, but not before, when the dominant periodicity corresponded to 41,000 years. The unexplained transition between the two periodicity regimes is known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, dated […]
Mid-Pleistocene climate transition (aka the 100,000 year problem) triggered by Antarctic Ice Sheet growth, say researchers
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA
This fall, the citizens of Washington State should reject Climatism and vote in favor of the resolution to strike down the Climate Commitment Act.
No Governor Inslee, Repeal of Washington State’s Climate Commitment Act Won’t Hurt the Climate
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in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: regressive left
Chris Trotter writes – CHLOE SWARBRICK has embarked on a brave, but almost certainly doomed, political experiment. She has set out to build a mass movement on the foundations of a political party that rejects majoritarian decision-making, and which, by elevating the particular above the universal, makes the social solidarity that fuels mass action impossibly […]
Wooing The Masses – A Green Fairy Tale?
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