Reason reports: It was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three of her four children and drove her to the station in Fannin County, Georgia. She was then fingerprinted, photographed, and dressed in an orange jumpsuit. Her crime? Hours earlier, around noon, Patterson had driven her eldest son […]
Mum jailed for letting a 10 year old go for a walk
Mum jailed for letting a 10 year old go for a walk
17 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: nanny state
Pamela Paul on politics and transgender issues
17 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: 2024 presidential election, free speech, gender gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
I keep thinking that Pamela Paul, who is consistently heterodox by criticizing the “progressive” left, will be given the boot as a regular NYT op-ed columnist. But I’m happy to see that she’s still in there swinging, this time criticizing the progressive (do I need to keep calling it that?) brand of transgender activism in […]
Pamela Paul on politics and transgender issues
DON BRASH: WHY I WOULD NOT HAVE VOTED FOR TRUMP
17 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
I was surprised, indeed astounded, when I discovered that some of my New Zealand friends were enthusiastic about Donald Trump’s winning the US presidency. How could they be supportive of such a man becoming the chief executive of the most powerful country in the world? How could John Key support such a man for President?…
DON BRASH: WHY I WOULD NOT HAVE VOTED FOR TRUMP
New Rule: Tough Love Dems | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
16 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, television, TV shows Tags: 2024 presidential election, Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
TARGETED BEIRUT: THE 1983 MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING AND THE UNTOLD ORIGIN STORY OF THE WAR ON TERROR by Jack Carr and James M. Scott
16 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Lebanon, Middle-East politics, war against terror
(The scene around the U.S. Marine Corps base near Beirut, Lebanon, following a massive bomb blast that destroyed the base on Oct. 23, 1983) On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched an unspeakable terrorist attack on Israel killing over 1200 men, women, and children, and seizing over 200 hostages. The Israeli response was a brutal attack […]
TARGETED BEIRUT: THE 1983 MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING AND THE UNTOLD ORIGIN STORY OF THE WAR ON TERROR by Jack Carr and James M. Scott
Trumping the Electric Vehicle Mandate
15 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA, transport economics, urban economics Tags: 2024 presidential election, electric cars
Four principles will likely guide the Trump Administration’s actions on the auto industry in the next several months: (a) tariffs to protect domestic auto industry jobs, (b) fighting against mandates that tilt the playing field toward an EV technology that is both widely unpopular especially for load-carrying vehicles, (c) lowering the overall cost of owning reliable transportation for American consumers, and (d) consumer choice, not government mandates, must drive the auto and truck marketplace.
Trumping the Electric Vehicle Mandate
How would NZ Labour do using this vision
14 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Prominent leftwing commentator Matt Yglesias posted a nine point vision for how the Democrats can return to “common sense”. They resonate with many and are below. None of these are radical. I thought it would be interesting to assess NZ Labour and Greens against the nine points.
How would NZ Labour do using this vision
Trump’s victory: Golden age or fiscal reckoning?
14 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, fiscal policy, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, property rights, public economics Tags: 2024 presidential election
Oliver Hartwich writes – In his victory speech, Donald Trump promised Americans a new “golden age”. While he had the numbers to win the election, the economic realities he faces will make delivering on his promise challenging. Trump’s victory reflects many Americans’ frustrations with living standards and inflation during the Biden-Harris administration. Vice President Kamala […]
Trump’s victory: Golden age or fiscal reckoning?
PNAS publishes an opinion piece arguing that the politicization of science is bad (contradicting the NAS President’s views)
13 Nov 2024 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: affirmative action, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
I’m actually surprised that the article below was published in The Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS), one of the more high-quality science journals, just a tad below Science and Nature in prestige. It has had a reputation for being “progressive” (e.g., woke), one that I discussed last year when Steve Pinker had […]
PNAS publishes an opinion piece arguing that the politicization of science is bad (contradicting the NAS President’s views)
The Second Resistance Movement: Why the Campaign Against Trump This Time is Different
12 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, free speech, regressive left
Below is my column in The Hill on the growing calls for an organized resistance to the Trump Administration by Democratic governors and prosecutors. They may find, however, that the resistance movement this time around will be facing significant legal and political headwinds. Here is the column:
The Second Resistance Movement: Why the Campaign Against Trump This Time is Different
Curtain Pull: How Trump’s Election Produced a Moment of Unintended Honesty
11 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in Fox.com on the response of media figures to the Trump victory on election night. The meltdown was a moment of honesty for some in revealing the bias harbored by many in the industry. That curtain pull offered a glimpse of the Great Oz that some will be difficult to unsee. […]
Curtain Pull: How Trump’s Election Produced a Moment of Unintended Honesty
Prediction Markets for the Win
10 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, financial economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
The prediction markets predicted the election outcome more accurately and more quickly than polls or other forecasting methods, just as expected from decades of research. In this election, however, many people discounted the prediction markets because of large trades on Polymarket. Paul Krugman, for example, wrote: Never mind the prediction markets, which are thin and […]
Prediction Markets for the Win
10 Reasons Why Trump Won- Part 2
09 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Yesterday I covered the first 5 reasons why Trump won. Here are the last 5. 6. Greatly improved Republican ground game There are four areas where Republican efforts more closely matched or even exceeded those of the Democrats whereas in all four, GOP campaigns in 2020 were significantly outspent and outsmarted: Donald Trump began labeling […]
10 Reasons Why Trump Won- Part 2
Behold The Flying Dutchman: Trump Prosecutors Find Themselves on Listless Ships Without a Port of Call
09 Nov 2024 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 collapse of the lawfare campaigns against Trump. The first to go will likely be the two cases by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who became a lame-duck prosecutor at around 2:30 am last Wednesday. We are also waiting for what is likely to be a reduction or […]
Behold The Flying Dutchman: Trump Prosecutors Find Themselves on Listless Ships Without a Port of Call
President-Elect Trump’s Climate/Energy Policy: 100-Day Action Plan a Good Start
09 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
“Good news indeed! Energy cuts are easy cuts compared to the hard budget choices that lie ahead in the transition from statism and stagnation to a vibrant, coordinated, expanding entrepreneurial economy.”
President-Elect Trump’s Climate/Energy Policy: 100-Day Action Plan a Good Start
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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