Hoodoo Gurus – Whats My Scene – Countdown Australia – 26 April 1987
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A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603 – 1714 by Mark Kishlansky (1996) 3
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The reign of Charles I
The 1620s
King James I died on 25 March 1625 and was succeeded by his son, Charles I. A month and a half later Charles married the French Princess Henrietta Maria (sister of King Louis XIII) by proxy in a ceremony in Paris. She was then sent to Kent where they met and spent their marriage night.
Charles was crowned in Westminster in February 1626 but Henrietta’s Catholicism prevented her from being crowned with him and this lack of a formal coronation, along with her overt Catholicism and the stipulation that she be allowed to practice her Catholicism in the royal court, were all to build up popular animosity against her.
In fact, the French stipulation that she be allowed to bring up her children in the Catholic religion lay the seeds of the overthrow of her son James II in 1685. It’s odd that…
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Richard Clapton – Deep Water – Countdown Australia – 1977
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Green Party Hypocrisy Good for School Choice
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Heather Roy
27 August 2020
Congratulations James Shaw! I never thought I would be complimenting the Green Party co-leader for his support of school choice for parents and students. But we are of course living in very strange times.
The Green Party endorsement of a private school in Taranaki is one of those unexpected election year surprises. Who would have thought the Greens would support a private school, in complete contradiction of their education policy which explicity states “Public funding for private schools should be phased out and transferred to public schools”?. Flexible ethics are alive and well, including in the Green Party.
In fact James Shaw has announced more than an endorsement of the Taranaki private school – it’s more like a lotto style win of $11.7 million for the Green School, with the funding coming from the Government’s $3 billion shovel-ready projects fund. Much as I object…
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#Greenbaublesofoffice @NZGreens
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in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, income redistribution, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2020 New Zealand election
Steve Stewart-Williams on the value of evolutionary psychology
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When I give talks about why Americans reject evolution so frequently, I refer to Steve Stewart-Williams’s excellent book from 2010: Darwin, God, and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything you Though You Knew. It goes through reason after reason why evolution not only undermines our ideas, but why that undermining makes people resistant to evolutionary biology and its conclusions. It explained to me, for instance, why 27% of American Catholics are creationists, embracing Biblical literalism despite the fact that the Church itself explicitly accepts evolution. Those people, like many, just can’t get past the naturalistic and non-human-centric implications of evolution. The book is like a bucket of cold water tossed on the idea that evolution doesn’t conflict with religion.
Steve has a newer book, published in 2018 (click on screenshot below to go to Amazon site). I haven’t yet read it, though it’s coming to me…
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A Common Lawyer Looks at Supreme Court Constitutional Law | Richard Epstein
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein Tags: constitutional law
An Honest Conversation on Gender with Dr. Debra Soh
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Thomas J. Sargent on macroeconomics and the crisis 2013
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in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, inflation targeting, Jan van Ours, job search and matching, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
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