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The Great Escape

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccines

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Maps again

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Should they be returned?

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by Jim Rose in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace Tags: economics of borders, maps, Nazi Germany, World War I, World War II

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Why do the media ignore far worse behaviour from the left?

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by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand Tags: regressive left

The Herald reports: Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March says Prime Minister Christopher Luxon needs to step in after NZ First leader Winston Peters made allegedly “xenophobic” comments about him. Act leader David Seymour has come to the Green MP’s defence, saying “we’ve got to stop obsessing over when people arrive” in New Zealand. But Luxon has this…
Why do the media ignore far worse behaviour from the left?

Galaxy Quest (5/9) Movie CLIP – I’m Gonna Die! (1999) HD

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Religiousness

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New German Law Mandates Energy Consumption Cuts

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by Jim Rose in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: Germany

By Paul Homewood We have just escaped the Climate and Nature Bill by the skin of the teeth, but it seems the Germans have not been so lucky. Benny Peiser sent me an essay (translated) by Robert von Loewenstern, which tells about a new law, the “Energy Efficiency Act”, which was passed in 2023. […]
New German Law Mandates Energy Consumption Cuts

Operation Faustschlag – Germany Advances In The East Again I THE GREAT W…

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Madonna – Like A Prayer had a trigger warning for religious imagery on MTV80s

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Corruption is wrong

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by Jim Rose in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, bribery and corruption

Chris Christie writes: In my seven years as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, we brought 130 cases of political corruption. Though I have been a lifelong Republican, corruption has no party—the cases were against Republicans and Democrats alike. The reason those cases were so important was that it showed citizens […]
Corruption is wrong

The Great Escape

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, health economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape

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Richard Dawkins on the “tri-societies” fracas on sex (and a call for signatures)

22 Feb 2025 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of education, gender, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, gender gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination

And so we come to the last sex post of the day—about a new piece by Richard Dawkins on his Substack site, The Poetry of Reality. Richard points to what he sees as arrant hypocrisy in the statement on biological sex by the Presidents of the SSN, ASN, and SSB. As I mentioned in my […]
Richard Dawkins on the “tri-societies” fracas on sex (and a call for signatures)

The Great Escape

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape

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3 things the M4 Sherman did BETTER than other tanks

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by Jim Rose in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II

Bugger all

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