Hume didn’t hold back but will this be hate speech if @NZGreens get their way?
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NZ Cannabis Referendum – #1 : Little assumes we are all stoned as he brazenly misleads with his referendum announcement
07 May 2019 Leave a comment
Given that this is a topic that will be an ongoing political issue in NZ for some considerable time – this is the first in a series of posts about this issue and related matters
So Andrew Little has released the approach being taken regarding the cannabis referendum
There are several immediate concerns which come to mind and no doubt as things are clarified over the coming months some will prove to be unfounded. Though I will be pleasantly surprised if that proves to be the case.
First though let us address the rather peculiar interpretation placed on the concept of binding used by Mr. Little (from Jane Patterson at RNZ)
Cabinet ministers have agreed the referendum will be binding, based on agreement by all three governing parties.
“The voters’ choice will be binding because all of the parties that make up the current government…
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A “speech wars” section of The Atlantic
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I’d like to call your attention to a fairly new feature of The Atlantic that began last fall: a series of columns and short pieces gathered under the rubric (and webpage) called “The Speech Wars”. Click on the screenshot to go there:
The topics and viewpoints are diverse, but all have something to do with the rights of people to say what they want, and the counterspeech against it. There are pro- and con-columns about Ilhan Omar’s statements, columns about hate speech, about the demonization of Harvard’s Ronald Sullivan, a house master and lawyer who is defending Harvey Weinstein as a client, and so on. Here’s a small screenshot:
You won’t agree with everything—how could you when the pieces sometimes take diametrically opposed stands?—but you’ll probably benefit most by reading things you don’t agree with. After all, isn’t that one of the great boons of free speech?
Entrevista con Edward Prescott
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in business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: real business cycle theory
Half of Venezuela’s oil exports were to the US until a few months ago
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in development economics, energy economics, growth disasters, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Venezuela
Too late now
07 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism
Another Great Escape
06 May 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, life expectancies
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