Close to the mark
11 Apr 2019 1 Comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: political correctness
For those in these secular times who forgot the links between religion and hate speech
11 Apr 2019 3 Comments
in economics of religion Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion, Reformation
Benito Mussolini Biography: The Man Who Destroyed Democracy
11 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: fascism, Italy
High Court upholds abortion buffer zone laws
10 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
In an important decision on free speech issues, the High Court of Australia, in its decision in Clubb v Edwards; Preston v Avery [2019] HCA 11 (10 April 2019), has upheld the validity of laws in Victoria and Tasmania prohibiting communication about abortion within 150m of an abortion clinic. The decision may have serious implications for free speech about other issues on which religious believers have deep-seated convictions contrary to the general orthodoxy of modern Australian society.
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Thomas Sowell on the Vulgar Pride of Intellectuals
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Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Dr. Thomas Sowell published a book entitled Intellectuals and Society. In his book, Sowell examines a group of people who influence public policy, debates and other institutions. The talk Dr. Sowell gives in this video goes into elements of his book. It includes discussion of some of the personalities profiled in it along with a look at President Barack Obama.
Dr. Sowell also discusses environmentalists too as they are very much intellectuals in that they think they are the enlightened ones who should run society or run other people’s lives. The only difference is that environmentalists can back their words up with activism in order to make you do their bidding. Not only is the road to hell paved with Ivy League degrees, as Dr. Sowell quips, but hell on Earth is achieved by people thinking they know what is best for others.
A Qatari sociologist gives Islamic instructions (and a demonstration) on how to beat your wife
10 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Another country for the New Zealand human rights Commissioner to go join celebrate their tolerance week.
To all those who seem to think that being Muslim is in itself a badge of honor, to those who ignore the misogyny inherent in the religion and its dictates, to those feminists who turn a blind eye to the oppression of women in the Middle East, calling Israel an apartheid state but ignoring the “apartheid” against women in Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran—to all these people, have a look at this video from Qatar, featuring a sociologist demonstrating the Islamically permissible way to beat your wife.
MEMRI describes a new video featuring Qatari sociologist Abd Al-Aziz Al-Khazraj Al-Ansari, who uploaded his “demonstration” on the Al-Mojtama YouTube channel. The video is below, and I’ve put some screenshots below it, which I posted before I found the subtitled video on YouTube (MEMRI doesn’t often put its videos there).
Remember that Qatar is considered one of the more liberal Islamic…
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Climate Forecasting: The Big Gap – by The GWPF
10 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Climate models overheating
Some might not agree with the claim here that ‘The basics of climate change are well known’, but the author spotlights the shortcomings of climate models that almost invariably over-predict warming that fails to occur – which strongly suggests a faulty basis for understanding climate patterns. Even the newest model shows signs of repeating these long-known errors.
There is a gap in climate predictions, says Dr. David Whitehouse.
It is between the annual and decadal.
I was once told by a very eminent climate scientist that he didn’t care what the observations of the real world were, he believed in models, and only models, and they were enough to work out what is going on.
But I wonder?
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Discrimination and Disparities with Thomas Sowell
10 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell Tags: child poverty, family poverty, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
Balto: The Canine Hero
10 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: Alaska
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