The Tsar Abdicates – Baghdad Falls I THE GREAT WAR Week 138
16 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: Russian revolution, World War I
The Ghahraman Conflict
15 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, media bias
What was that judge thinking? Peter Williams writes – That Golriz Ghahraman and District Court Judge Maria Pecotic were once lawyer colleagues is incontrovertible. There is published evidence that they took at least one case to the Court of Appeal together. There was a report on the case in Stuff in 2016 and another story about them […]
The Ghahraman Conflict
Israeli writer pulls out of scheduled talks before she gets canceled for having “wrong views”
15 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
Dina Rubina is a prominent Russian Israeli Jew who writes in Russian. Wikipedia gives this precis: Rubina is one of the most prominent Russian-language Israeli writers. Her books have been translated into 30 languages. Her major themes are Jewish and Israeli history, migration, nomadism, neo-indigeneity, messianism, metaphysics, theatre, autobiography and the interplay between the Israeli and Russian […]
Israeli writer pulls out of scheduled talks before she gets canceled for having “wrong views”
Bonus Quotation of the Day…
15 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, liberalism, Marxist economics
Tweet… is from page 434 of the final (2016) volume – Bourgeois Equality – of Deirdre McCloskey’s soaring trilogy on the essence of bourgeois values, on their transmission, and on their essential role in modern life: Zero-sum is the default in thinking about my gain and thine. It is the chief error in economic thinking…
Bonus Quotation of the Day…
Bill Maher confers the 2024 Cojones Awards
15 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in television, TV shows
In this short seven-minute segment from last week’s “Real Time,” Bill Maher confers five “Cojones Awards” for having. . . .well, moxie. (Women can also get the Golden Testicles.) You may recognize some of the winners, and of course, at the end, there’s the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, which I have to say […]
Bill Maher confers the 2024 Cojones Awards
Exploding Energy Prices in Costly California
14 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
Green energy policies are the primary cause for high and escalating California energy prices.
Exploding Energy Prices in Costly California
New gas power plants needed to bolster energy supply, PM says
14 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood Have they finally woken up? By Justin Rowlatt Climate editor, BBC News The UK needs to build new, gas-fired power stations to ensure the country’s energy security, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday. The new stations would replace existing plants, many of which are aging and will soon be retired. […]
New gas power plants needed to bolster energy supply, PM says
Snipers in World War 1 (Documentary)
14 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
A good refutation of a bad article on the supposed “spectrum” of sex
14 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
On March 8, I wrote a critique of this article, which appeared in American Scientist (click sceenshot to read): When I wrote my piece, I had grown weary of people making the same tired old arguments against the sex binary, arguments like saying that sex isn’t binary because male orangutans come in two forms (“flanged” […]
A good refutation of a bad article on the supposed “spectrum” of sex
Hamas plays fast and loose with the casualty numbers from Gaza
14 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, media bias, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
This article from Tablet describes “How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers“, and while I have a few quibbles with it (or rather, alternative but not-so-plausible interpretations), the author’s take seems pretty much on the mark. Abraham Wyner simply gives the daily and cumulative death-toll accounts of Palestinians taken from the Hamas-run Gazan […]
Hamas plays fast and loose with the casualty numbers from Gaza
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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