Judge Posner on WikiLeaks
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in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner, war and peace Tags: Cold War, war against terror
Antonin Scalia – Constitutional Interpretation
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: constitutional law
Shamima Begum may not deserve your sympathy, but she is entitled to legal aid
15 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Another weekend, another flurry of anti-legal aid stories finding their way into the tabloids. On the criminal legal aid front, The Mirror splashed outrage at the notion of Andrew Hill, the pilot acquitted of manslaughter following the Shoreham Airshow tragedy, “getting” legal aid to mount his successful defence at his criminal trial last year.
It’s one thing when The Mirror – a market leader in legal aid trash news – whips its readers into uninformed apoplexy over criminal legal aid being granted to those who are, after a fair trial only possible because of legal aid, convicted. But it breaks bold new ground even for this organ to resent legal aid being granted to a man whom a jury has found to be not guilty.
Then this morning, the Daily Mail, in a headline which may stand out as the apotheosis of journalistic legal ignorance, announced:
“Shamima Begum is…
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Nazi Concentration Camp Belsen Liberated #OTD (1945) | War Archives
15 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
“Friedman Friday,” EPISODE “The Failure of Socialism” of Free to Choose in 1990 by Milton Friedman (Part 1)
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Milton Friedman: Free To Choose – The Failure Of Socialism With Ronald Reagan (Full)
Published on Mar 19, 2012 by NoNationalityNeeded
Milton Friedman’s writings affected me greatly when I first discovered them and I wanted to share with you. We must not head down the path of socialism like Greece has done.
Ronald Reagan introduces this program, and traces a line from Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations” to Milton Friedman’s work, describing Free to Choose as “a survival kit for you, for our nation and for freedom.” Dr. Friedman travels to Hungary and Czechoslovakia to learn how Eastern Europeans are rebuilding their collapsed economies. His conclusion: they must accept the verdict of history that governments create no wealth. Economic freedom is the only source of prosperity. That means free, private markets. Attempts to find a “third way” between socialism and free markets are doomed from the start. If…
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Jordan Peterson – Women in High Paying Jobs – rather good clip
15 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
The Lenin Boys Go To War – Hungarian Soviet Republic I THE GREAT WAR 1919 March
15 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Hitchens on Noam Chomsky’s Lose of Perception
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in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics Tags: war against terror
Warmists Epic History Fail
14 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Geologist Gregory Whitestone provides a climate history lesson for warmists who skipped history classes protesting against global warming. His article at Town Hall is Ocasio-Cortez’s Climatology Lacks Historical Context. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. H/T Climate Depot.
When Sam Cooke sang “Don’t know much about history” in 1960 he could not have had U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in mind, but only because she lives a half century later.
Whatever Ocasio-Cortez got from history classes during her time at Boston University, it wasn’t an appreciation of historical context because it is sorely lacking in her assertions about climate and its effect on humankind. She and others promoting the Green New Deal have the facts exactly backwards when they claim that warming temperatures are an existential threat to humanity.
Ocasio-Cortez recently warned in a House Oversight Committee hearing that the United States would have “blood on our hands” if legislation to…
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ROBIN by Dave Itzkoff
14 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
(From the film “Good Morning Vietnam”)
For years I showed the Robin Williams’ film “Good Morning Vietnam” to my history classes. The movie reflected Williams’ genius, empathy, and commentary pertaining to a conflict that tore America apart. I introduced the film because I wanted students to get a feel for a different aspect of the war which the character of Adrian Cronauer apply portrayed. Williams’ is also known for many other ground breaking and important films that include, “Dead Poets’ Society,” “Good Will Hunting,” “The Fisher King,” and the cartoon voiceover of “Áladdin,” along with a number that did not achieve recognition, but reflected Williams’ many talents. Williams was a multifaceted individual whose onstage comedic insanity expressed a certain poignancy when one got passed the mask that the comedian presented to his audiences. When he died in 2014 a cultural void was created which may never again be filled. Williams…
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FUNNY MAN by Patrick McGilligan
14 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
(Mel Brooks)
Recently I read ROBIN by David Itzkoff, a biography that described the comic genius and troubled life of Robin Williams. The book was thorough and replete with explanations of why Williams turned out as he did, and the role comedy played in his life. There are few people who can approach Williams’ ability to transform themselves into different characters and employ improvisation. One who might approach Williams’ talent is Mel Brooks, the subject of a wonderful new biography by Patrick McGilligan entitled, FUNNY MAN.
Brooks’ background and early life stems from the wave of Russian Jewish immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century. Thousands would pass through or remain on the lower east side of Manhattan or move across the Williamsburg Bridge into Brooklyn as Brooks’ family did in 1917. McGilligan describes his subject as a pampered child as the youngest…
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