Utopia, you are standing in it!

When I visited Argentina last November to give some speeches, I expressed a lot of pessimism and rhetorically asked whether the country could be rescued. In a column earlier this month, I followed up with two reasons for why Argentina is a basket case: “The short-run answer is modern monetary theory. The long-run answer is […]

Argentina Election Shocker

In the wake of the second indictment of Donald Trump, many law professors have offered good-faith rationales for why the four counts do not violate the First Amendment. Some of these columns respond to my view that the indictment would criminalize disinformation and political speech. While I respect many of these commentators, including my good […]

The Speech-as-Conduct Theory: A Response on the Second Trump Indictment

I recently shared my advice for men on finding a wife. Now I’m going to share my advice for women on finding a husband. While a few bigots will object to the idea of males advising females, the only question that genuinely matters is whether my guidance is good. To start, most of my advice…

He’s the One

I did an interview with Mike Hosking this morning on monetary policy and inflation, against the backdrop of this afternoon’s Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Statement. Where we differed seemed to be around wages. Hosking asked how did wage inflation get so high, contributing to the ongoing inflation problem, and suggested that wage earners should now […]

Monetary policy miscellany

Below is my column in The Messenger on the Georgia indictment. As expected, the indictment is a sweeping racketeering based prosecution involving former president Donald Trump and the 18 other defendants. The scope of the alleged conspiracy is massive.  “The call” is one of those steps but the famous line that has occupied hours of […]

“Oh Georgia, No Peace I Find”: The Fourth Indictment of Donald Trump and the Criminalization of Election Controversies

I recently asked, in light of the free speech implications of the second federal Trump indictment, when the price is too high for those who seek to jail the former president. The chilling answer is found in a new report out of the University of Chicago showing that almost 12 percent of the population, representing […]

Age of Rage: UChicago Report Finds 30 Million Americans View Violence as Justified To Keep Trump from Power

The vacuous ninnies promoting the line that the world can run without hydrocarbons are always rattled by news to the contrary. As much a symptom of ideological groupthink, as evidence of the West’s woefully inadequate system of general education, the Extinction Rebellion crowd would have it that coal, oil and gas are forms of toxic […]

Why Wind & Solar’s Contribution To World Energy Demand Will Always Be Trivial

There is a full Monetary Policy Statement from the Reserve Bank and its Monetary Policy Committee tomorrow. No one expects them to do anything much, but I’m less interested in what they will do than in what they should do. It is hard to be optimistic that the Committee will do the right thing at […]

What should the MPC do?

I’ve complained about excessive bureaucracy at the Food and Drug Administration. And this is not just run-of-the-mill grousing about red tape. The FDA actually is responsible for needless deaths because of pandemic incompetence, anti-vaping mentality, and delayed approval for life-saving drugs. Interestingly, I may now have an unexpected ally in the battle against FDA red […]

An Epiphany for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

At the latest count, 93 people died in the Maui fire that also burned most of the town of Lahaina. The blame for this fire can be traced directly to Hawaii’s 62-year-old land-use law, which was written to protect Hawaii’s agricultural industry but had the opposite result. The land-use law … Continue reading →

Land-Use Law Kills Nearly 100 People in Maui

By Paul Homewood   The Government is facing an uprising in its own Tory heartlands against a key element of its net zero climate policy. From 2026, it will be illegal to buy a new oil boiler, and households will be encouraged to switch to heat pumps. This is especially problematic in rural areas that […]

The Tories are trapped by net zero legislation

+++CONTAINS SOME GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++ When Dwight D. Eisenhower entered Ohrdruf Concentration camp, after it was liberated he had the foresight to document the horrors he saw there with his own eyes. Ohrdruf was liberated on April 4, 1945, by the 4th Armored Division, led by Brigadier General Joseph F. H. Cutrona, and the 89th Infantry […]

Protecting the Truth of the Holocaust.

As the Nazis did in Europe, the Japanese Imperial Army had concentration camps in the Pacific. The Asian camps were nearly as horrific as the European ones, and the conditions were inhumane, nonetheless. This is just a side note, but I did notice, while researching, none of the Pacific camps were referred to as camps […]

Concentration Camps in the Pacific

The Green Party wants to facilitate the transfer of more public (or “Crown”) and private land to iwi, hapū, and whānau.  The intent is to address inequities arising from Māori land loss, especially in the 19th century.  The New Zealand Constitution Act 1986 marks the point that Parliament became sovereign and the British Crown’s role […]

The Green Party’s plans for public and private lands

In 2020, New Orleans planned to install bike lanes on 75 miles of streets, reducing the capacity of those streets to move cars. The residents of the first neighborhoods where they were installed strongly protested and are happy to report that, in late July and early August, all newly installed … Continue reading →

New Orleans Dismantles Bike Lanes