Ruth Richardson’s submission on the Treaty Principles Bill is excellent. I’ve copied it below.
Ruth Richardson on the Treaty Principles Bill
Ruth Richardson on the Treaty Principles Bill
07 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economic history, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: constitutional law
DON BRASH: DAME TARIANA TURIA – MAY SHE REST IN PEACE
07 Jan 2025 1 Comment
in labour economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
I didn’t have the privilege of working with Dame Tariana in any substantive way but I developed a very high regard for her integrity and commitment to the wellbeing of New Zealanders, and especially Maori New Zealanders of course. The National Party did very well in the 2005 general election, increasing its Parliamentary representation from…
DON BRASH: DAME TARIANA TURIA – MAY SHE REST IN PEACE
The Trump Sentencing: Curtain to Fall on Merchan’s Hamlet on the Hudson
07 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in the Hill on the sentencing this week of President-Elect Donald Trump in Manhattan. Judge Juan Merchan waited to schedule the hearing for just ten days before the inauguration, limiting the time available to appeal. His order suggests that, if there is any interruption or delay in his sentencing, he might […]
The Trump Sentencing: Curtain to Fall on Merchan’s Hamlet on the Hudson
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06 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle
TweetScott Lincicome decries Biden’s abuse of national security to block Nippon Steel’s acquisition of U.S. Steel. Two slices: Today, President Joe Biden blocked Nippon Steel’s proposed acquisition of US Steel on the grounds that “there is credible evidence” the Japanese steelmaker “might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States.” What…
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Another big tobacco black market bust
05 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: black markets, economics of smoking
NewstalkZB reports: Police have restrained more than $2.5 million in assets, including four properties in Gisborne, after a discovery of undeclared tobacco was intercepted at the border. It comes after Customs intercepted 110kg of loose tobacco and more than 230,000 cigarettes – approximately 10,000 packets – concealed in Chinese tea packets in November last year, bound for residential and […]
Another big tobacco black market bust
California Rings in the New Year with New Push to Block Voter Identification
05 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2024 presidential election
In California, Democrats are ringing in the New Year with a new push against voter identification. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has been hammering Huntington Beach because the city recently amended its municipal laws to require basic voter identification. While voters overwhelmingly support voter identification, Democrats in California recently passed a law making it a […]
California Rings in the New Year with New Push to Block Voter Identification
I Pledge Allegiance To The… Ummm…!!
04 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, regressive left
What he said. It was one of Kamala Harris’s last jobs as VP: turn up in the Senate to swear in the new class of Senators. As Bonchie at RedState says, how hard can that be?: I mean, “the flag” isn’t exactly one of the harder parts to remember. It’s pretty much the entire point […]
I Pledge Allegiance To The… Ummm…!!
European Energy Firm Ordered to Remove 84 Wind Turbines from Osage Lands In Oklahoma
04 Jan 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: wind power
Energy Expert Robert Bryce: “It is a colossal black eye for the wind industry, which has collected tens of billions of dollars in federal tax credits by claiming its landscape-blighting, bird-and-bat-killing, property-value-destroying turbines are an essential part of the effort to avert catastrophic climate change.”
European Energy Firm Ordered to Remove 84 Wind Turbines from Osage Lands In Oklahoma
Government moves to strengthen free speech on campus
03 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Penny Simmonds announced: Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Penny Simmonds and Associate Minister of Education David Seymour today announced legislation changes to strengthen freedom of speech obligations on universities. “Freedom of speech is fundamental to the concept of academic freedom and there is concern that universities seem to be taking a more risk-averse approach,” Ms […]
Government moves to strengthen free speech on campus
Stuff refusing to run ads on the Treaty
03 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, politics - New Zealand Tags: free speech, media bias, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Hobson’s Pledge reports: We attempted to book the Sunday Star Times, The Post, the Christchurch Press, and The Southland Times. It would have been a tidy sum of money for the financially beleaguered media outlet… Our ad was very simple. Just words on a page communicating what is at the heart of the debate – equal rights. Vote […]
Stuff refusing to run ads on the Treaty
Atheist Orthodoxy: The Freedom From Religion Foundation Censors Scientist Over Transgender Views
03 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health economics, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: Age of Enlightenment, conjecture and refutation, free speech, Freedom of religion, gender gap, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is under fire this week after it censored a leading scientist, atheist, and board member, Jerry Coyne, a professor emeritus of ecology at the University of Chicago. The FFRF took down a column in which Coyne published a column titled “Biology is not bigotry,” a critique of an earlier […]
Atheist Orthodoxy: The Freedom From Religion Foundation Censors Scientist Over Transgender Views
DON BRASH: TIME TO SUBMIT ON THE TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL FAST RUNNING OUT
03 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in economic history, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: constitutional law
This Parliament is being asked to pass a significant number of important Bills during the course of its three-year life – Bills related to resource management planning, to infrastructure, to education and to health. But few Bills are of greater significance than the Treaty Principles Bill which David Seymour has sponsored. Why? Because it goes…
DON BRASH: TIME TO SUBMIT ON THE TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL FAST RUNNING OUT
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03 Jan 2025 1 Comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - USA, war and peace
TweetArnold Kling ponders producers versus parasites. A slice: What I notice is that the elites on the Republican side tend to earn a living as producers. They make things that other people want or need. In contrast, elites on the Democratic side include many people one may think of as parasites. They depend on producers…
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Te Pati Maori promise retrospective legislation
02 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
Te Pati Maori have written to organisations saying that if they are part of a Labour-led Government, they will pass retrospective legislation to punish organisations for actions that were entirely legal. You wonder how much more they need to do, to have media hold them to the same account as any other political party. They […]
Te Pati Maori promise retrospective legislation
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02 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, politics - USA
TweetMike Munger explains that “the only way to gain jobs is to lose jobs.” Two slices: Politicians want to create jobs, “good-paying union jobs,” in existing industries. But that’s not what markets do. The “destructive” part of creative destruction eliminates jobs in existing industries. In a dynamic economy, innovations indivision of labor can create good-paying…
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