Politico reports: Donald Trump’s team is crafting an executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, a monumental move the president-elect’s allies say is a key step in their long-term strategy: getting the issue before the Supreme Court. The effect of Trump’s order would be to exclude the children of undocumented […]
Trump just wants to copy NZ citizenship law
Trump just wants to copy NZ citizenship law
28 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in International law, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA
The curse of socialism
27 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, health economics, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of socialism, The Great Escape
Slandering Friedman and Hayek
27 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Milton Friedman Tags: apartheid, regressive left, South Africa
TweetOpponents of the liberal market order often play fast and loose with the facts in order to discredit two of history’s greatest champions of the liberal market order, Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek. Editor, The New York Review of Books Editor: Trevor Jackson writes of “the enthusiasm that free-market fundamentalists like Friedrich Hayek and Milton…
Slandering Friedman and Hayek
What does society expect from fathers?
27 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of love and marriage, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of fertility
We live in a society utterly confused about parenthood and the role of fathers. The last Labour government made fathers increasingly irrelevant. In 2020 a law change repealing section 70a of the Social Security Act meant mothers applying for a sole parent benefit no longer had to name the father of their child for the…
What does society expect from fathers?
“This Orange County…They Don’t Play”: California’s Tougher Shoplifting Law Receives Curious Endorsement
27 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, Gary Becker, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Proposition 36, which increases punishments for some retail theft and drug possession offenses, overwhelmingly passed in California despite the opposition of Gov. Gavin Newsom and most Democrats. Newsom denounced the measure as something that “takes us back to the 1980s, mass incarceration.” Despite discussing her tough-on-crime record in the election, Vice President Kamala Harris refused […]
“This Orange County…They Don’t Play”: California’s Tougher Shoplifting Law Receives Curious Endorsement
Biden’s Curious Capital Punishment Stance is Vintage Biden
26 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: capital punishment, crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
The decision of President Joe Biden to clear the federal death row has caused an uproar in some quarters and praise in others. There are good-faith arguments on both sides. However, there was a curious element to the Biden pardons for 37 people on death row. There were 40 people on death row. Three remain.
Biden’s Curious Capital Punishment Stance is Vintage Biden
The Reichstag Fire Trial: A Timeline of Power, Propaganda, and Resistance
26 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: Nazi Germany
The Reichstag Fire Trial, held in Leipzig from September 21 to December 23, 1933, was one of the most notorious and politically charged trials of the 20th century. The trial followed the fire that engulfed the Reichstag building in Berlin on February 27, 1933. This event and its subsequent judicial proceedings not only reflected the […]
The Reichstag Fire Trial: A Timeline of Power, Propaganda, and Resistance
RODNEY HIDE: Doctors and Nurses now Kill and Maim
26 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: abortion law reform
Our Doctors and Nurses are leaving babies to die should their attempt to kill them in utero fail. Their only care is to wrap the poor things in a blanket as they struggle and strain to their last pained breath. That happens now in New Zealand hospitals with nurses and doctors present with the ability…
RODNEY HIDE: Doctors and Nurses now Kill and Maim
Treaty Principles Submissions – Hobsons Pledge Lend A Hand
24 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
If you haven’t already done yours here is a helping hand from Hobsons Pledge so now you will have no excuse not to get to it. SUBMISSIONS CLOSE AT 11.59PM ON 7 JANUARY 2025!!!!! You can use the following as a guide – I am going to – but, use your own words and under […]
Treaty Principles Submissions – Hobsons Pledge Lend A Hand
The Joy is Gone: A Liberal Hate-Fest for the Holidays
24 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in The Hill on the rising rage of the holiday on the left as we approach the second Trump inauguration. From looking forward to harassment at restaurants to the purchase of Antifa-themed Christmas gifts, some appear to be planning for a hate-fest in the New Year. Here is the column:
The Joy is Gone: A Liberal Hate-Fest for the Holidays
12th century
23 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, International law, law and economics, property rights Tags: economics of borders, Mapa
Poverty and crime
23 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Introduction The relationship between poverty and crime has long been a topic of social studies, with many assuming that poverty is a major driving force behind criminal behavior. This essay argues that this perspective oversimplifies the complexities of both poverty and crime, presenting a misleading narrative about their correlation. By acknowledging that the majority of poor […]
Poverty and crime
My Submission On The Treaty Principles Bill
22 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
Sent in a few minutes ago. Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill I thank you for the opportunity to make a Submission on this very important Treaty Principles Bill which I support very strongly for a number of reasons – not least of those being the undemocratic way the the Labour Government in the […]
My Submission On The Treaty Principles Bill
The British Free Corps: A Historical Analysis of Propaganda, Treason, and Coercion
22 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War II
The British Free Corps (BFC) stands as one of the more peculiar episodes of World War II, symbolizing Nazi Germany’s propaganda-driven attempts to exploit discontent and division among Allied prisoners of war (POWs). Though numerically insignificant and operationally negligible, the BFC has drawn historical interest as a study in the intersection of ideology, coercion, and […]
The British Free Corps: A Historical Analysis of Propaganda, Treason, and Coercion
Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision
21 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: constitutional law, takings
As an academic and a legal commentator, I have sometimes disagreed with the United States Supreme Court, but I often stress the good-faith differences in how certain rights or protections are interpreted. One case, however, has long stood out for me as wildly off-base and wrongly decided: Kelo v. New London. The case allowed the […]
Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision
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