The Hippo vs. the Bulldog, Göring’s War – WW2 – 049 – August 3 1940
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Legal Calamity: Climate Nuisance Lawsuits
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It has come to this: Sue anyone doing anything you don’t like for profit as a “Public Nuisance.” Further on is reprinted a previous post explaining why it is legally wrongheaded to claim damages against purveyors of fossil fuels because of global warming/climate change. What is news today is a federal judge making exactly that mistake.
Michael I. Krauss writes at Forbes Federal Judge Allows Misuse Of Public Nuisance Doctrine. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
I have written, in this column and elsewhere, about the threat to the Rule of Law created by the misuse and abuse of Public Nuisance doctrine. Now I write to bemoan a federal judge’s tolerance of a particularly egregious effort by a state to invoke this ancient tort (typically used to sanction those who blocked the public roads) to judicially create legislative policy.
In State of Rhode Island v Chevron Corp. et…
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Jerry Lee Lewis Great Balls of Fire & Breathless Live 1958
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Predicted spread of humans around the world
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Clay Davis – Apologizing for the short con, setting up the long
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The History of Human Progress in Just Five Minutes
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Back in 2014, I shared two videos – one narrated by Deirdre McCloskey and the other narrated by Don Boudreaux – explaining how the world went from near-universal poverty to mass prosperity (at least in the nations that embraced free markets and the rule of law).
Here’s a video with a similar theme, narrated by Dan Hannan, a British member of the European Parliament (hopefully not for long).
I like this video because it goes back 10,000 years to the invention of agriculture.
Hannan explains how this led to the creation of governments, basically acting as “stationary bandits.”
And for thousands of years, a tiny elite of kings and nobles basically acted as dictators while 99 percent of people endured horrid lives of slavery, oppression, poverty, and misery.
But then, as Hannan discusses (and also explained in the McCloskey and Bourdreaux videos), arbitrary power eventually…
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