Review of “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Victor Davis Hanson – How a Border War in Europe Led to WWII
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in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I, World War II
The government keeps film subsidies on
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Subsidies and special deals for favoured firms/industries seem to have been becoming increasingly common in New Zealand. There is Tiwai Point, the Sky City convention centre, the forestry industry, the export education industry and probably others I’ve forgotten. There are the R&D tax credits the Prime Minister touts at every turn – the only substantive item in her (very short) list of things the government is doing to reverse the atrocious productivity performance.
And then there is the film industry, into which many hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured over the last couple of decades. There is an industry there, but one which official advice to the government makes clear has no prospect of viability without heavy subsidies. That should be a good test as to whether there is any robust case for the subsidy. Barring something like national defence considerations, any industry that has no credible…
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Fair question @Greens @VictorianGreens #globalwarming #climateemergency
11 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: climate alarmism
Bird Battle: Conservationists Sue US Government to Stop Wind Power Bird Slaughter
11 Jan 2020 3 Comments
The silence from traditional conservation groups against the wind industry’s rampant bird slaughter is deafening.
Once upon a time, hirsute, hair-shirted and sandal wearing tree huggers would die in a ditch to prevent harm to any of God’s other creatures. That was, of course, before industrial wind power hove into view. Groups like the Sierra Club and the UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds are all ‘fire and brimstone’ wherever ‘big business’ threatens our avian fauna. Except, that is, if the ‘big business’ in question is heavily subsidised, and chaotically intermittent wind power. It’s all about “saving the planet”, you see…
So, it’s a rare and beautiful thing when a couple of conservation groups get on the front foot.
In order to prevent the inevitable slaughter of millions of birds across the Great Lakes, the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and the Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO) have launched…
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Martin Luther King’s gay black Marxist right hand man on affirmative action
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Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology: But soon back down
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After their unlawful antics costing taxpayers millions of pounds and disrupting thousands of people trying to go about their daily lives, anti-terrorism police included XR in a booklet they send to statutary partners.
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Nathan Lents on the imperfection of the human body (it’s evolution, of course)
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Biologist Nathan Lents, whose abbreviated c.v. is given below, has been featured on this site before, both as a critic of creationism (good), but also as a defender of the Adam-and-Eve apologetics pushed by his religious friend Josh Swamidass (bad). But chalk up another two marks on Lents’s “good” side. First, he’s written a book (click on screenshot below) that lays out all the suboptimal features of the human body—features whose imperfection gives evidence for evolution. I’m getting the book for teaching purposes, and here’s the Amazon summary:
Dating back to Darwin himself, the “argument from poor design” holds that examples of suboptimal structure/function demonstrate that nature does not have a designer. Perhaps surprisingly, human beings have more than our share of quirks and glitches. Besides speaking to our shared ancestry, these evolutionary “seams” reveal interesting things about our past. This offers a unique accounting of our evolutionary legacy…
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