Week 310 – Mokusatsu! – WW2 – August 3, 1945
03 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Japan, World War II
Talking BBB with Veronique de Rugy
03 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply
Here’s a lively AIER podcast on Build, Baby, Build with the one and only Veronique de Rugy. Best French libertarian since Bastiat? Décider vous-même!P.S. Capla-Con 2024 starts two weeks from tomorrow in Fairfax, Virginia. You’re all invited! Feel free to coordinate ride-sharing in the comments.
Talking BBB with Veronique de Rugy
The Battle of Passchendaele – Mutiny in the German Navy I THE GREAT WAR …
03 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Will there be any consequences from the Greens for JAG?
03 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
The Herald reports: Green MP Julie Anne Genter has been found in contempt of the House for “intimidating” behaviour directed at another MP and it has been recommended she be censured. A report just released by the Privileges Committee, which assessed Genter’s actions in the House in May, recommends the Rongotai MP be “censured by the House for acting […]
Will there be any consequences from the Greens for JAG?
Men less self-controlled than dogs?
03 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism Tags: women's liberation
A taxi driver in Sydney told us he was fasting for Ramadan and it was harder in the southern hemisphere when it was summer when the time between sunrise and sunset was longer. Discussion continued on what was required of a good Muslim and got on to why women are required to cover up. He […]
Men less self-controlled than dogs?
Mid-Pleistocene climate transition (aka the 100,000 year problem) triggered by Antarctic Ice Sheet growth, say researchers
03 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
According to Wikipedia: ‘The 100,000-year problem refers to the lack of an obvious explanation for the periodicity of ice ages at roughly 100,000 years for the past million years, but not before, when the dominant periodicity corresponded to 41,000 years. The unexplained transition between the two periodicity regimes is known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, dated […]
Mid-Pleistocene climate transition (aka the 100,000 year problem) triggered by Antarctic Ice Sheet growth, say researchers
The Battle of Passchendaele – Mutiny in the German Navy I THE GREAT WAR …
03 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
No Governor Inslee, Repeal of Washington State’s Climate Commitment Act Won’t Hurt the Climate
03 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA
This fall, the citizens of Washington State should reject Climatism and vote in favor of the resolution to strike down the Climate Commitment Act.
No Governor Inslee, Repeal of Washington State’s Climate Commitment Act Won’t Hurt the Climate
Wooing The Masses – A Green Fairy Tale?
03 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: regressive left
Chris Trotter writes – CHLOE SWARBRICK has embarked on a brave, but almost certainly doomed, political experiment. She has set out to build a mass movement on the foundations of a political party that rejects majoritarian decision-making, and which, by elevating the particular above the universal, makes the social solidarity that fuels mass action impossibly […]
Wooing The Masses – A Green Fairy Tale?
Racism is racism
02 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Some Labour and Maori Party MPs have been making appalling personal attacks on Act MP Karen Chhour: The minister has been under pressure from opposition parties over contentious policies including the re-introduction of boot camps and the repeal of Section 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki Act – removing treaty obligations from the law. But Chhour […]
Racism is racism
Plain packaging for infant formula is nuts
02 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand Tags: nanny state
Farmers Weekly reports: The Minister of Food Safety is set to take on his counterparts from all Australian states and the Federal Government on Thursday to try to save New Zealand infant formula exports to Australia and potentially to China. Andrew Hoggard’s aim will be to amend proposed rules that would limit New Zealand producers’ […]
Plain packaging for infant formula is nuts
RODNEY HIDE: Endless repetition makes lies truth
02 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: criminal deterrence, free speech, law and order, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
The Ardern years continue to blight the nation. It’s not just the destructive policies and debilitating debt but the lasting dysfunctional governance both public and private that routinely lies to us and infantilises us. The legacy media are gone. They are now pimps for government and corporate propaganda. Endless repetition makes lies truth, with dissent…
RODNEY HIDE: Endless repetition makes lies truth
Don’t Mess with Texas: Fifth Circuit Rules Against the Biden Administration in Buoy Dispute on Southern Border
02 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: 2024 presidential election, economics of immigration
Texas won a big victory in the United States Court of Appeals in the long struggle over floating buoy barriers in the Rio Grande River to help block unlawful migration. In United States v. Abbott, the court ruled 11-7 in an en banc decision against the Biden Administration over the barrier. It is an interesting decision […]
Don’t Mess with Texas: Fifth Circuit Rules Against the Biden Administration in Buoy Dispute on Southern Border
Bakersfield College Agrees to $2.4 Million Settlement in Free Speech Case
02 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: academic bias, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Last year, we discussed the free speech case of Matthew Garrett, formerly a tenured history professor at Bakersfield College who was investigated and disciplined after he questioned the use of grant money to fund social justice initiatives. Bakersfield College has one of the worst records on free speech in higher education and has been repeatedly […]
Bakersfield College Agrees to $2.4 Million Settlement in Free Speech Case
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