Conversations With History – Edward N. Luttwak 2007
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in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Iraq war
Amazing Old Maps
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in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: maps
Norway is Burning – WW2 – 035 – April 27 1940
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
“Friedman Friday” (“Free to Choose” episode 1 – Power of the Market. part 1of 7)
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“FREE TO CHOOSE” 1: The Power of the Market (Milton Friedman)
Free to Choose ^| 1980 | Milton Friedman
Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 4:20:46 PM by Choose Ye This Day
FREE TO CHOOSE: The Power of the Market
Friedman: Once all of this was a swamp, covered with forest. The Canarce Indians who lived here traded the 22 square miles of soggy Manhattan Island to the Dutch for $24.00 worth of cloth and trinkets. The newcomers founded a city, New Amsterdam at the edge of an empty continent. In the years that followed, it proved a magnet for millions of people from across the Atlantic; people who were driven by fear and poverty; who were attracted by the promise of freedom and plenty. They fanned out over the continent and built a new nation with their sweat, their enterprise and their vision of a better future.
For…
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Some advice to @NZFamilyFirst on @nzdrug @_chloeswarbrick’s efforts to legalise and regulate marijuana
28 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: black markets, grey markets, marijuana decrimilization, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The Haircuts for Monks Led to Great Discord in the Early Catholic Church
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The Godfather of Modern Espionage – Sidney Reilly I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Russian revolution, World War I
.@BillMaher to @Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why Do Liberals ‘Blame the Victim’ When It Comes to Islam?
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in development economics, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of love and marriage, economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, televison Tags: Age of Enlightenment, political correctness
Six times Columbo loses his cool – and what it tells us
28 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Butter wouldn’t melt? Don’t you believe it…
Ask a Columbo fan about their very favourite scenes and it’s odds-on that a flash of Columbo rage will rank pretty highly in their estimations.
In terms of his real personality, the Lieutenant is something of an enigma. He keeps his emotions in check most of the time, so it’s hard to know what he really thinks of a given scenario or a given person. However, there are those rare occasions when circumstances force his inner character to be revealed, and inevitably these are scenes to treasure.
Of particular interest is a bout of Columbo rage – the rarest Columbo reveal of all. There are plenty of times he could flip out, particularly as he meets low lives galore who treat him with disdain, but the Lieutenant inevitably retains an enviable emotional equilibrium and a cool head. How he maintains his composure with Paul…
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The shape of things to come if the @NZGreens get their way on hate speech laws
28 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of media and culture, gender, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Political Correctness And Offending Whining Pussies – Tonightly With Tom Ballard
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in economics of crime, economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Stefan Theil: Unconstitutional Prorogation
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Parliament voted on the evening of 1 April in a series of indicative votes to determine what, if any, alternative plan for withdrawal from the European Union could command the support of the House of Commons: all plans put forward again failed to command a majority. In a recent intervention, John Finnis has suggested that the government should prorogue Parliament until after 12 April in order to terminate the current parliamentary debate. Mark Elliott has offered a critique of the broader implications of this argument, namely the claim that such a course of action would be ‘(…) wholly legitimate as a matter of constitutional principle.’ Elliott concludes that parliamentary control of the process is entirely legitimate and in keeping with the British constitution. This piece adds to this analysis by elaborating why the prorogation Finnis advocates under these specific circumstances would be, as Elliott summarily puts it, ‘(…) an…
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Robert Hazell: Is the Fixed-term Parliaments Act a Dead Letter?
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Cross-posted from the Constitution Unit blog.
The ease with which Theresa May was able to secure an early dissolution last week has led to suggestions that the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 serves no useful purpose and should be scrapped. Drawing on wider evidence of how fixed-term parliaments legislation works in other countries, Robert Hazell argues that there is a danger that it is being judged prematurely, on the basis of a single episode. Future circumstances in which a Prime Minister seeks a dissolution may be different, and in these cases the Fixed-term Parliaments Act may serve as more of a constraint.
On 19 April the House of Commons voted by 533 votes to 13 to support the Prime Minister’s motion for an early general election, easily surpassing the two-thirds threshold required for dissolution under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. In the preceding debate Conservative MPs such as Sir Edward Leigh…
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