Utopia, you are standing in it!

National announced its tax and spending plans this morning. You can read the full 29 page document. In the way of all parties and bureaucratic agencies these days, everything gets quoted as a four year figure: $14.7 billion sounds like a lot but it about $3.7 billion a year, which is about 0.8 per cent […]

National’s tax and spending plan

[Reminder: I’m running my first Ask Me Anything for paid subscribers tomorrow at 4 PM ET. With all new AV equipment. Upgrade if you want to participate.]Back in 2015, I found myself deeply dissatisfied with all of the other theories of left and right. Survive/thrive theory is especially overrated. So I modestly proposed my own:…

My Simplistic Theory of Left and Right: The Talk

New Zealand’s Population Conference is on in Auckland this week, so population issues have been on my mind. In the past, I’ve written about population decline in Japan. Things have escalated since that earlier post, as the Guardian reported last month:Every one of Japan’s 47 prefectures posted a population drop in 2022, while the total number…

Japan’s population decline is both a crisis and an opportunity

Pretty simple actually for the planet actually, as the following graph shows: 8,500 coal plants need to stop burning coal.We stop driving 1.4 billion cars.Planes stop flying 100,000 times a day.Stop eating tens of billions of animals per year.Stop shipping stuff. Yeah. That’ll happen. Incidentally, as a sort of follow-up to the previous post on […]

Hitting Net Zero

Germany has been overrun with 30,000 giant industrial wind turbines and millions of solar panels. Its climate cult reckons that the wholesale environmental destruction wreaked so far is all about saving the planet. It’s an argument that holds all the logic of amputating an entire leg to prevent a septic toe from doing any further damage […]

How 30,000 Industrial Wind Turbines Have Wrecked Germany’s Environment

Below is an expanded version of my Hill column on the Georgia call at the center of the recent indictment and the attack in the Washington Post by columnist Philip Bump, someone I have repeatedly criticized in the past for false and misleading stories. The column attacked me for suggesting that the Georgia call was […]

Yes, Trump was Seeking Another Recount or Investigation in Georgia: A Response to the Washington Post

Mitchell List and Kurt Schuler serve as interlocutors in “An Interview with James D. Gwartney on His Life and Work in Economics” (August 2023 (Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise, SAE #238, August 2023). The interview offers an in-depth overview of his pathway to and within economics.…

Interview with James Gwartney: Personal Choices and Public Choice

Below is my column in The Messenger on the expanding evidence in the Biden corruption scandal and the need for Congress to take commensurate action to investigate the matter. After this column ran, Fox’s Brian Kilmeade conducted an interview with Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. What was striking about the interview is not just the […]

Why the House Has No Alternative to an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden

From Alice Evans: Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan are closing gender gaps in pay, seniority and parliamentary representation. Japan and South Korea, meanwhile, have the largest gender pay gaps in the OECD. Management remains 85% male. Female graduates are treated like secretaries, expected to pour the tea and run errands. In Japan, a female graduate earns the same as a man […]

Why are Gender Pay Gaps so Large in Japan and South Korea?

In 2017, Denmark took a historic step in favor of free speech by rescinding its blasphemy law after 334 years. For those of us in the free speech community, it was an important moment in Europe where free speech is being rapidly reduced. Now, however, the liberal government is moving to reinstate the blasphemy crime…

Denmark Restores Blasphemy Prosecutions

By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler It seems the Met Office is getting worried that its one-sided reporting of climate change is becoming exposed, as people are beginning to check the facts for themselves:   A toolkit of information you can trust. There is overwhelming evidence that climate change is affecting the health of the […]

Fact Checking The Met Office’s Fact Checks

It is easy to take the long reign of Elizabeth I for granted. But less than four years after Elizabeth ascended the throne, her life was nearly cut short, threatening to bring down the curtain on the Tudor dynasty. What might have ensued is explored by Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of our Lords 1558-1603 section… On 10 […]

What if Elizabeth I had Died in 1562?

Below is my column on the search for the true identity of Robert L. Peters, the name Republicans believe was used by then Vice President Joe Biden in emails that contradict his past claims on the influence peddling scandal. Here is the column: He is a man with many names. “Celtic.” “The Big Guy.” According […]

The Search for Robert L. Peters: He Goes By Various Names…The Question is Why

Vic Hughes explains in his American Thinker article The Blunt Truth about Global Warming Models.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. I may be one of the first scientists in the country to know that predicting long-term temperatures is not possible. Almost 50 years ago, while in grad school, I had a […]

Why Climate Models Can’t Be Right

Steven Koonin shared his honest and wise perspective on global warming/climate change in the interview above.  For those who prefer reading, an excerpted transcript from the closed captions provides the highlights in italics with my bolds and added images. PR: Welcome to uncommon knowledge; I’m Peter Robinson. Now a professor at New York University and […]

Koonin’s Climate Honesty