What makes the decent Left decent is not that it is Left, but what it shares with decent folk who are not of the Left. Failure to grasp that leaves one claiming that any person of the Left is morally and intellectually superior to any person of the “Right”: so Pol Pot is morally and intellectually superior […]
The upside of Mozilla’s purging of Brendan Eich is various folk are getting the point that penalising opinion and purging workplaces is so not a good idea. The downside is a lot of folk just don’t get the bigger issue. This piece, for example, First They Came For The Mormons, exemplifies the common notion that “this” started with […]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Blogging, Economics, Events, History, Law, Personal liberty, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy, Religion, Sexuality, Society, The Left
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September 8, 2013 – 4:32 am
Freedom of belief doesn’t appear to be important to Fox News host Dana Perino, who suggested that if atheists don’t like having “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, well, “they don’t have to live here.” Massachusetts’ highest court is currently hearing a case against the Pledge brought by atheist parents, who feel that due […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Fark!, Funnies, Law, Religion, Society
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Tagged america, american humanist association, athiesm, Dana Perino, david niose, fox news, pledge of allegiance, USA
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Ben Bernanke is not a Tea Party sort of person. An academic appointed as Chair of the US Federal Reserve (“the Fed”) by a Republican President (Bush II) and re-appointed by a Democrat President (Obama) who helped organise the bailout of Wall St in response to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), he is the epitome of […]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Academia, Economics, History, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy
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Tagged Bank of England, Bank of France, barack obama, Ben Bernanke, Benjamin Strong, central banking, Condoleezza Rice, credit channel, Euro, European Central Bank, gold standard, Great Depression, Great Moderation, Great Recession, Gunther Grass, John Kerry, milton friedman, money, Nazi Party, Obamacare, plucking model, President George W. Bush, Reichstag, Romneycare, TARP, Tom Wolfe, US Federal Reserve, US tea party, Zero Lower Bound
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April 12, 2013 – 11:25 pm
Downing Street has released the names of more guests who will attend Lady Thatcher’s funeral, including US politician Newt Gingrich and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Advertising magnate Lord Maurice Saatchi, internet pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee and singer Katherine Jenkins have also accepted invitations. The ceremony will be held at St Paul’s Cathedral in […]
The death of Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts, 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), the longest serving and most controversial British Prime Minister of the C20th, has and will let loose a storm of picking over the bones of her Premiership and legacy. I would caution against examinations that look at British economic statistics alone, […]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, History, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy, The Left
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Tagged Cold War, margaret thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Rubbery Figures, soviet union, Spitting Image, Terrorism, Winter of Discontent
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There is a joke in modern American politics–the Republicans want a big defence force they don’t want to use anywhere and the Democrats want a small defence force they want to use everywhere. Implicit in the joke is that the Republicans like military spending and the Democrats don’t. Because the right is “strong” on defence […]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Britain, Defence, Economics, History, Politics, Public Policy, Taxation, The Left
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Tagged al gore, alliance building, Anglo-French Entente, Anglo-Japanese alliance, appeasement, British Liberal Party, Cold War, deficit, dreadnoughts, Edouard Daladier, estate taxes, fixed exchange rates, france, Franco-Russian alliance, Germany, grand strategy, Gulf War, High Seas Fleet, hitler, house of lords, Inflation, japan, John Kerry, Kevin Narizny, Korean War, Lebensraum, monetary policy, naval arms race, nazi germany, Paul Volcker, People's budget, Popular Front, President George W. Bush, re-armanent, Ronald Reagan, Second Reich, Spanish-American War, US democrats, US Federal Reserve, US republicans, Vietnam War, Weltpolitik, WWI, WWII
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February 19, 2013 – 9:15 am
In a his excellent The World Is Not Enough blog, Charles Richardson comments on an essay by Israeli journalist Yossi Gurvitz. Gurvitz’s essay applies the analogy of Germans expelled from the Sudetenland, Silesia, Prussia etc after 1945 to the Palestinians expelled from Israel in 1947-48. As Charles notes, it is a revealing analogy. But revealing not […]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in History, Human/Civil rights, Immigration, Middle east, Politics, Public Policy, Religion, The Left
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Tagged Algerian Civil War, Arab Spring, Arab-Israeli conflict, Armenian Genocide, Auschwitz, Charles Richardson, Christian exodus, debt bondage, EU, Fascism, Greece, Haj Amin al Husseini, Hamidian massacres, Israel, Israeli Defence Force, Israeli Labour movement, Lebanese Civil War, Leninism, Likud, Nazism, population exchange, refugees, scapegoat, Shin Bet, Sudanese Civil Wars, Syrian civil war, the holocaust, Turkey, Yossi Gurvitz
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January 29, 2013 – 8:00 am
I have previously posted elsewhere about how similar the failures in indigenous policy and development (particularly foreign aid) policy have been. Remarkably similar, indeed. They also show some distinct similarities to the more unfortunate effects of welfare provision. (By ‘welfare provision’ I do not mean the aged pension or health or education services; I am talking […]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Australia, Economics, England, History, Law, Personal liberty, Philosophy, Public Policy, The Left, Welfare
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Tagged afghanistan, ALP, Amerindians, Anglo-Saxon law, Arnhem land, Assizes, Australian Aborigines, canon law, china, cliodynamics, collectivisation, common law, Commonwealth Intervention, Curley effect, Danelaw, development policy, Earl Ferrers, Elinor Ostrom, farming, foragers, foreign aid, france, free riding, Glenn Reynolds, Henry II, House of Elders, house of lords, human capital, hunter-gatherers, Immigration, indigenous policy, iraq, japan, Jesse Helms, Lapps, magna carta, narcissism, Norman law, North American colonies, Peter Turchin, singapore, sit down money, Somaliland, Thomas Hobbes, time horizons, trial by jury, Vernon Smith
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October 10, 2012 – 3:18 pm
Radio personality Alan Jones has been in trouble again, this time because he made some insensitive comments about the recent death of the father of Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the Sydney University’s Liberal Club President’s Dinner. Jones suggested Gillard’s father ‘died of shame’ as a result of the lies his daughter had told the […]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australia, Free Speech, Immigration, Media, Politics, Society, The Left
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Tagged Alan Jones, Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, chaff bags, Cronulla riots, Feminism, Julia Gillard, misogyny, Peter Slipper, sexism, The Left, The Right, Tony Abbott
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