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AFL hands down punishment to Geelong over concussion waiver - The agreement occurred in 2024, but it was outside the AFL's standard playing contract.
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Climate NGOs and Foundations: The Hidden Conflicts of Interest - We must prioritize human flourishing over alarmist dogma. Only then can we harness energy for all, not just the elite-funded few. The post Climate NGOs a...
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Bigger benefits won't help children - Why are incompetents routinely called 'experts' these days? The election campaign brings them out in their droves. Today's Herald headline: *Child povert...
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Te Pati Maori’s bonkers tax plan - Te Pati Maori has announced the following as part of their tax policy: Let’s say you are a very high wealth NZers with $100 million of assets. Let’s say ...
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Opportunity knocks - Good vibes all round – unless you’re a woman. It’s fair to say that the leader of the revamped Opportunity Party Quilae Wong is the best looking of all the...
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As one housing reform works in Texas, another in Colorado hits a budgetary hitch - What happens to the push for more housing when the budget dries up?
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Is Britain bringing blasphemy laws back under another name? - Britain abolished blasphemy law years ago. A Quran burning, an anti-Islam meme, and two protest signs show why the controversy never left.
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Day One at Vanderbilt’s New York Campus - Among the tech and finance kids, there are plenty of students drawn to Museum Studies and the Chelsea art scene.
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Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a “Fact of Modern Life” in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry - The WSJ is giving opinion writers a thumbs-up on AI use. The post Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a “Fact of Modern Life” in Majo...
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Premium Remedy - People are very inconsiderately living longer and taking out life insurance policies despite being sold such policies by insurance companies. Inevitably, t...
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Doug Casey on Your Enemy, The Deep State - Washington imports and consumes the fruit of American effort, and exports only dung. The post Doug Casey on Your Enemy, The Deep State appeared first on ...
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New Zealand needs asset recycling to fund its infrastructure future - A fortnight ago, the government agreed a sale worth $702 million. Nicola Willis and Chris Bishop sold the loans the Crown made to Chorus to help build the ...
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The Flowing Robe - The Deeps of Time Part 1 - Reflections on Ἀθηνᾶ and the Akropolis
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Other Ways of Knowing: Ethno Epistemic Challenges to the Universality of Science - From toe rings for a healthy pregnancy to a president who scrapped AIDS drugs for a dream-given herbal cure, this essay confronts a growing academic moveme...
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Daddy’s Girl - Using Danish registry data, we study how managers’ gender attitudes shape gender inequality in the workplace by exploiting the birth of a daughter – as o...
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A Fresh Himalayan Flood Calamity Unfolds from China (Tibet) Downstream into Nepal - The acronym GLOF hides horrific dangers and the need for better warnings.
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Miss Duck! - . . . four days ago. Isn’t she lovely? The best duck mother ever, and a gorgeous, gray, long-necked hen. Click to enlarge; I demand it. Another duck report...
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How Cambridge became the epicentre of Western self-loathing - The post How Cambridge became the epicentre of Western self-loathing appeared first on spiked.
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King Abdullah Predicted Iran’s Two Decades Of Expansionism - The U.S. invasion of Iraq and the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan upended the regional balance of power. The Islamic Republic spent the next two decades...
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Iran War: Live Updates - Al Jazeera
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Ludwig Lachmann and the Role of Uncertainty in Economic Affairs - While not as effective an economist as Ludwig von Mises or Murray N. Rothbard, Ludwig Lachmann played an important role in the revitalization of Austrian e...
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The United States Is Shuttling Ships Through the Strait of Hormuz - According to the New York Times, the United States has conducted stealth missions near the Omani coast, successfully shuttling tankers through… The post ...
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A Changing Geography of U.S. Sanctions in the Middle East and Africa - The Trump administration flails on Iran and Sudan while cementing the opening with Syria.
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Mike's Minute: Rate caps – not a moment too soon - So the Government has moved on rates. The cap is 4%, unless there are exceptional circumstances. Of all the price pressures that are out of control, rates ...
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Shallow Intent: Why People Don’t Like AI Content, and How to Make It Great - And the winner of the poster competition!
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Build Now Act math & map - On June 23, Congress passed its first big, standalone housing policy bill in a generation. The bill, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, is a salad of sm...
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Sharia, Freedom, and the American Way of Life: A Response to Daniel Brubaker - What the sharia alarmists rarely consider is that the exercise of freedom is precisely what leads many Muslims to value it, as polls keep showing.
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Hegel and ‘Life of M’ - Ryan Ruby in the NLR
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A change of intent... - Words 103 · RF@80 Series.
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Is US Government Debt Getting Riskier? - Looking at the benchmark interest rate for 30-year US Treasury debt, long-term interest rates have been rising. Any price change might happen for a numbe...
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Progressives Will Be Horrified When They Wake Up To What They’ve Done - The sterilization of children, the killing of mentally ill addicts, the decimation of education, and more, will haunt the Left
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Company Deep Dive: Chevron - Pro Tier: August 2026 Doom Zoom
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The Wealth Tax Revival Is Repeating a Failed Experiment - California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion...
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An American Dream - In case you missed our live Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
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UK Tax Policies Hampering Oil & Gas Production As Energy Crisis Intensifies - BP is selling off its offshore oil and gas assets in the North Sea due to punitive UK taxes. BP pays an effective 78% tax rate on profits from oil and na...
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A future of programmable medicine - What if instead of editing a gene, or blocking the protein it produces, you could simply switch it off?
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Four Forms of Numericide - Four Forms of Numericide by Alan Cassels at Brownstone Institute [image: Four Forms of Numericide] A recent article in the *New York Times* on the increa...
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On falling in line - This started as a choice of trade policy. It’s become a choice of reality.
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Chartbook 470 Treasury v. Fed 2026: Battle Royale or “Epic Fury” in the bond market? - To have the two central agencies of government economic policy not engaged in a coherent division of labour, but pulling in opposite directions, points to ...
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Implications of the New York Approval of RGGI Amendments - On August 5, 2026, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) approved amendments to Part 242 CO2 Budget Trading Program. This make...
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⏸️ One More Won't Hurt... - Or will it?
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Smoke Without Fire: Why Cigars Should Not Be Cigarettes in Law - Cigarette smoke is acidic. Cigar smoke is alkaline. That single chemical fact explains why the two habits are physiologically distinct, and why treating ...
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High Energy Prices - A Feature, Not a Glitch, of the Forced Energy Transition - It has long been an ill-kept secret that a central strategy deployed by climate change advocates is to invoke policies to intentionally raise the cost of e...
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Dolly Parton, Pure Product of America. Plus. . . - In today’s Front Page: Caitlin Flanagan and Hannah Long on the death of Dolly Parton. Plus: The advice college freshmen need to hear. Can Trump’s ‘D-Day’ f...
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The Affordability Debate Unwrapped - Pricey burritos are neither proof of an affordability crisis nor evidence of personal irresponsibility.
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Octavian “found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble” - Octavian, if you’re new around here, is far better known as Augustus, the founder of the Principate. Over at SteynOnline, Tal Bachman continues his interes...
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Fiscal red flags reveal growing problems in California governments and school districts - California has the largest total debt of any state in the nation, nearly $497 billion in state liabilities. The post Fiscal red flags reveal growing prob...
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When People Are Irrationally Afraid: You Control Them - “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of h...
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Most Questions About AI Aren’t About AI - Why the AI revolution is a golden age for polymaths, philosophers, and moderate epistemic despair
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If only he understood the words he uses - Surviving climate change just requires storing a bit more water, in plastic bottles (irony alert). And a stock of tinned food will definitely get us thro...
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Business Conditions Monthly June 2026 - The June 2026 AIER Business Conditions Monthly (BCM) shows a pronounced improvement in forward-looking conditions, while measures of current and trailing...
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Business Conditions Monthly June 2026 - The June 2026 AIER Business Conditions Monthly (BCM) shows a pronounced improvement in forward-looking conditions, while measures of current and trailing...
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Xu Jilin on the Politics of Resentment among China’s Youth - “An ‘unorganised force’, filled with ‘ressentiment’, possesses undeniably large destructive power—like a great flood, it is difficult to channel. This must...
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Samizdata quote of the day – Russia’s threat to UK edition - “In the current Russian leadership’s rather 19th — though increasingly 21st — century view of how the world works, lesser powers must defer to great ones...
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Defending Data Centers - *Noah Smith*: "Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy"
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CoCo Deception - Just before Denver’s Regional Transit District put the $4.7-billion FasTracks plan on the 2004 ballot, it sent a mailer to just about everyone in its distr...
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CoCo Deception - Just before Denver’s Regional Transit District put the $4.7-billion FasTracks plan on the 2004 ballot, it sent a mailer to just about everyone in its distr...
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Round 24 – Sydney Swans v North Melbourne: The Bloods Culture might be bloodied, but it will survive - Dan Lonergan reflects on an emotion-charged game at the SCG on Sunday when the 'Bloods Culture' was put to the test.
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Congress Can Provide Relief for Americans By Renewing the Biodiesel Fuel Tax Credit - Diesel and biodiesel fuel the engine that keeps America’s economy running, powering most of the vehicles and equipment that facilitate the products we cons...
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The Democratic Socialists Of America And Dolly Parton - The sad news today is that country music legend Dolly Parton has died. I admit that I’m not particularly a fan of country music. It’s not that I don’t like...
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In the Land of AI and Bamboo Forks - I spent a couple of days at Anthropic. Here’s some of what I learned. Plus a podcast with Brink Lindsey and a hilarious video about going from sheep to swe...
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Fringe Dweller Residence / Mihaly Slocombe - Fringe Dweller's sculpted extension sees the transformation of an unassuming weatherboard cottage into a proud forever home. It's a home that walks a num...
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Newly released texts confirm Anthony Fauci, other ‘experts,’ always knew mask mandates wouldn't work - The message was sent to avoid FOIA issues, while admitting aerosols drove COVID transmission, not respiratory droplets
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Trump Decides to Launch WAR WITH THE WORLD to Defeat Iran and Destroy the Dollar - Before we get into Trump’s suicide mission to end the Iran war by destroying the US dollar, we should lead off with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s co...
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Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy - And you thought the SpaceX S-1 was ridiculous
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Why the British Left has fallen for China - Can Anglo-Dengism cure our ills?
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Some recent social media snippets (mine). - A few years ago former KP colleague Lew decamped for more fertile writing territory and to attend to more important priorities. To my surprise he began pos...
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DON BRASH: Is the Electoral Commission no longer neutral? - Outrageous. That was the first word that came to mind when a supporter sent me a copy of an email they had received from the Electoral Commission. This is ...
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Apologising for Telling the Truth. - Revolutionaries should be made of sterner stuff.
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Know Your History: The American Tribune - An interview with Will Tanner on the lessons of history, banned books, Civil Rights Act, Rhodesia, and marxist revisionism (61 min)
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A farewell to Queensland - This guest post by transport planner and urbanist extraordinaire Darren Davis is shared with kind permission from his blog Adventures in Transitland. Wel...
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A “Hot Mess”of a Middle School And the Principal Who Pulled Off an Attendance Miracle - [image: LG_BLOG_image_middle School Mess] Nine years ago, Liberty Middle School in Pickens County, South Carolina, had so many kids held back year after ye...
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Trumpian Socialism At Work—Let Them Eat Hamburger! (Part 2) - Needless to say, if domestic production is deficient, global market can in principle readily fill the gap. In the case of beef supply, however, it does n...
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Teaching the Holocaust Is Not Enough - From 2027, New Zealand students will formally study the Holocaust as part of the Year 10 Social Sciences curriculum. That is an important development. At a...
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The White House’s Science Strategy Gets Two Big Things Right - Its two core ideas are worth taking seriously: harnessing AI to accelerate science and redesigning research organizations for this purpose. The post The...
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How Our Leisure Time Got Monetized - It wasn’t always like this
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New on Substack: Creator match, audience-specific content blocks, global reply rules, advanced podcast transcript editing, and more - Reach new subscribers, deepen relationships with the ones you have, and build a more sustainable business around your work
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I Wouldn't Start From Here - The Trump administration proposes to amend NCA5. No amendment fixes that report — only Congress can restore integrity to climate assessments
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The AI Hater's Manifesto - If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s *$70 a year*, *$18 a quarter*, or *$7 a month*, and in return you get a week...
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Gym, Football Pitch, Snack Bar and 17 Free Minibuses: Inside the Wethersfield Asylum ‘Holiday Camp’ - Free gym, football, compulsory halal meals, spending money and a fleet of 17 minibuses ferrying migrants to nearby towns – all on the taxpayer. Welcome t...
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Grid Upgrades Will Add £200pa to Bills by 2030 - By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Cunningham So the £300 saving Ed promised us was a lie! From the Telegraph: Household energy bills will rise by nearly £13...
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A New Research Guide to the Stoic Attitudes and Behaviours Scale - Tim LeBon’s work developing and validating a measure of philosophical Stoicism
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DHS Is Adding Another $100K Tax on H‑1B Visas - It is not a fee because it is not a charge for a service. Rather, it is an attempt to reduce the hiring of H‑1B workers.
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DHS Is Adding Another $100K Tax on H‑1B Visas - It is not a fee because it is not a charge for a service. Rather, it is an attempt to reduce the hiring of H‑1B workers.
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Q but No Queens: An Album a Day - Featuring Quiet Riot, Quinn XCII, and Quincy Jones, among others
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More Details Emerge On How Trump Cronyism Ruined The Attempt To Break Up Ticketmaster - Last March it was revealed that the Trump DOJ stabbed its antitrust lawsuit state partners in the back and struck a terrible settlement with Ticketmaster, ...
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Contra Weisenthal on Highways - Does it matter whether building more houses lowers prices not?
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Guest post: The uncomfortable truth an explosion of papers reveals about authors’ access to data - The involvement of independent academic researchers in examining data and conducting analyses is central to producing trustworthy research. Because of this...
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Life in the Fortress - I first read Fortress Besieged as a teenager, when the novel, originally published in 1947 and out of print for decades, became a bestseller in China after...
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It’s Official: There Was a COVID Conspiracy - The web of lies surrounding the origins of COVID-19 is finally being exposed. Buckle up.
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J.D. Vance is a Huey P. Long Fanboi - *The Republican Party of the future is not going to be the party of Milton Friedman. We're going to enjoy spitting on his grave, metaphorically speaking.* ...
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The 50% Problem [repost] - Driving automation will start by making things worse
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Why the French Revolution Was Not a Libertarian Revolution - This essay is adapted from a lecture presented at Mises University, July 25, 2026. Source: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-french-revolution-was-not-libe...
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Japan 2000 now available on Nugs. - All 11 shows from The ConstruKction of Light tour of Japan are available to download on DGMLive or buy on CD through our partnership with Nugs.
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Erica Stanford’s Social Media Ban Bill Gets Support From Grand Coalition Mutant Chris Luxkins - THINK OF THE CHILDREN. The post Erica Stanford’s Social Media Ban Bill Gets Support From Grand Coalition Mutant Chris Luxkins appeared first on The Whak...
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1820s poetry: from Byron's Don Juan, 1821 - Part of a quick review of the 19th century, before we launch into the 20th.
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Israel Has No Place Training New Zealand Teachers About Genocide - Palestine Forum of New Zealand and Alternative Jewish Voices are calling on the Government to immediately reject any proposal to...
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Daily review 25/08/2026 - Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the P...
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CROSS STREET MUSIC FESTIVAL DROPS FIRST WAVE OF 2026 LINE-UP - Cross Street Music Festival has dropped the first wave of artists for Saturday 28 November 2026, bringing together some of Aotearoa’s most exciting indep...
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Bankrupting local government - Local government in Aotearoa is in a crisis. For decades, Boomers have voted to Keep Rates Low, running the infrastructure paid for by previous generations...
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Quote Origin: All True Stories End in Death - Ernest Hemingway? Lionel Trilling? Ladislaus Boros? Larry Williams? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: U.S. novelist Ernest Hemingway has been cr...
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NRL Predictions for Round 26 - Team Ratings for Round 26 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
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Social media - The column: Mike’s Minute: The social media ban is a line in the sand Hosking, barring his childish TDS, is one of the better columnists in New Zealand (a ...
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A Smaller Australian Senate - Australia has one of the largest upper houses in the democratic world relative to the size of its national parliament. The Senate currently consists of 76 ...
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Numerical (in)stability of recurrence relations - The previous post gave several examples of three-term recurrence relations for special functions. These relations can be computationally useful, but they...
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Stories You Don’t Want to Be Told - A new exhibition curated by Lars von Trier provides a fascinating look at who and what has influenced one of the world’s most prodigiously gifted and provo...
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A time for choosing - Party Mode
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French Fables - An interesting brouhaha has broken out in France, lately famous for reinvigorating the idea of wealth taxes: The French government should default on (“annu...
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Rhetoric Tip #60: Don’t Tell Them Everything You Know - Tell your audience what they need to know
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LEAVERS data covering all NZ high schools - I have just completed the annual data process I do that covers the LEAVERS data for every high school - as well as data aggregates.
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If the (adamantium) bones are good, the rest don’t matter - *A little bit different from today: An interview with the senior project director of Insomniac Games’ upcoming Marvel’s Wolverine game about adapting a 5...
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Spurred by heat from Trump, Iceland votes on reopening frozen EU talks - Iceland is reconsidering its EU membership following the 2008 crisis and global tensions, with a referendum set to determine whether to resume EU talks, de...
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The Missing Ingredient in Expert Trust - Your public value as an expert increasingly lies in helping people make good decisions. Especially when nobody knows the answer.
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The Beauty and Subtle Moments of Everyday Life, Photos 1954- - “I don’t have a favorite place to take photographs or even a favorite subject. I carry a camera. If I go out into the hallway, I carry a camera with me.”...
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“There Are Other People in This Restaurant” - A stranger scolded our table at a quiet English restaurant dinner. The confrontation exposed a deep divide in how America and England treat speech.
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Eudemian Ethics I.2 - A Target of Living Beautifully
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The Object of Our Emotions Is Not Necessarily Their Cause - To be objective about our emotions and overcome bouts of depression, anger, or indulgence, it can help to focus on the state we’re in and not assume the ob...
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The AI Patent Gold Rush: Volume, Value and Patent Strategy | IPWatchdog Unleashed - This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, I spoke with Robert Plotkin, a patent attorney, computer scientist, and longtime software and AI practitioner. In what...
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Thank you, Ukrainians! Happy Independence Day. - Today is a day for gratitude, sorrow, and renewed solidarity with Ukraine.
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Celebrate International EarthCache Day 2026! - Since 2004, EarthCaches have encouraged geocachers to explore and celebrate the extraordinary geologic features of our planet, like these colorful rock for...
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The Data Republican Drama, or: Social media can be a really stupid place full of really stupid people and increasingly I fear there’s nothing to do about it - Populist political movements face fierce opposition from the establishment press everywhere they exist, with unrelenting hostile coverage across all public...
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Best Descriptions - Here is the thing. If you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority o...
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There may have been drinking… - And cake and poetry and TIARAS! An update with photos from Frost Farm 2026, the most fun and convivial metrical poetry conference in town.
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Libertarianism Against Cultural Conservatism: A Refresher - Thoughtful apostasy is beautiful to behold. A person who understands and embraces a view forwards and backwards notices subtle inconsistencies, either in...
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The Resistance Is a Noble Crusade - Trump’s authoritarianism has been worse than expected, but the opposition to him has been stronger than anticipated
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It’s PMI Time Again... - What’s changed since the last round?
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Selected Phonorecords V Objections: The Society of Composers & Lyricists - The Society of Composers & Lyricists objects to the NMPA-backed Phonorecords V Subpart B settlement, arguing that its continued reliance on the 12¢ Phonore...
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Life’s purpose after AI? - We see variations of this question: What happens when robots can do anything physical better than humans and AI can do anything cognitive better than any h...
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Cookery for All - “We’re only cooked if we accept it.” —Blaine Holt on “X”
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Prefabrication experiments - 524 - Modlines - Completed to high levels in a factory, incorporating the most refined details and according to rigorous quality control measures, modular volumetric b...
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The Killing of Renée Good by ICE - Politics, morality, and the law
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The Killing of Renée Good by ICE - Politics, morality, and the law
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The Returning Mind - Dying Daily—Meditations for Mortals
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Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch) - Has the earth been visited by extraterrestrials? Are we alone? Despite no formal evidence for conscious life outside of earth, the belief that we are not...
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Why Socialism Isn’t Coming to America - Budget realities defeated DOGE, and will defeat the DSA too
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Truth? What Truth?? - By now, you’ve probably heard the name Jason Arday.
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Britain spends more on planning applications than Japan spends on extending high-speed railways through earthquake-prone mountains. - Britain builds high-speed rail at almost six times the cost of Japan, new IEA analysis finds Every French city with … Continue reading "Britain spends mo...
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Interview with Dominic Frisby - Just released, this interview was conducted on 28th July. It is still very relevant.
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No place to hide? - Regional Resilience and Vulnerability to Global Catastrophic Risk
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How AI Becomes a Political Crisis - Unemployment, Data Center Backlash, and the Brewing Storm
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National is right about social media, but its ban is still a bad idea - A quick response to National’s announcement of legislation to ban u16 social media
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DSA WTF - I don’t mind this guy’s vote every once in a while, when we need it. But I don’t want him setting the agenda. I’ve been trying to catch up on some of the ...
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The Sovereign Sea, Part 2: Cultural Survival, Ecological Realism, and the Geopolitics of Whaling - By Barry Scott Zellen, PhD 1. Introduction: The Ideological Deadlock of the Maritime Commons For over half a century, the international discourse surroundi...
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They're WRONG About AI and Jobs - In a new show on business and finance at this transformative time for the global economy, Ben Shapiro talks directly with the founders, CEOs, and investors...
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Democracy Briefing: How both sides could game MMP - A strange argument is developing on the political right about how National could help the coalition get re-elected: National supporters should stop giving ...
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An economics without trade-offs - One reasonable definition of economics is the study of choice under conditions of scarcity, or choice under constraint. When getting more of one good thi...
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The Ace of Lace - Ace of Lace If you’ve spent any time sitting at a high table in a good local taproom over the last few years, staring down at an empty Nonic pint glass, yo...
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Of Helen Keller and Helicopter Parenting - The movie that best illustrates today’s parenting expectations is “The Miracle Worker,” about Helen Keller. When Annie Sullivan is hired as governess, sh...
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On Socialism and Democracy - This Post appeared on the Facebook page of The Federalist Papers: DSA [Democratic Socialists of America] Co-Chair Megan Romer did Americans a favor by sa...
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Why left-progressives adopt appalling people as moral mascots - They make for stronger signals of shared moral heroism
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Pre-Registered Play (Open April 25, 2027) - I'm trying something a little different here, and pre-registering a project I'll be playing with over the next eight months — but in a sealed digital envel...
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The New Artillery Shell Factory is a Dud - “It was just a bunch of guys taking turns going at the machine with a sledgehammer every night.”
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sunday memepool 2 - more tips for the modern age
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Lindsay Clancy Has Admitted She Killed Her Children. Why Does She Have So Many Supporters? - Source Usually if you strangle a bunch of innocent children to death, it’s a big no-no. But if you’re the one person on earth who is supposed to love and ...
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Saving Us from Government Intrusion Would Make the SAVE Act Redundant - In a truly free society, voting would be a minor administrative event, not a matter of life and death.
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Stoic Morning Practice: Start Before You Feel Ready - Some mornings, nothing has gone wrong and the day already feels like too much.
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The Collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. Finally. - When Exactly, I Don’t Know. But It Won’t Survive the Economic and Social Crisis Before It.
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Simon O’Neill and Pietari Inkinen shine in NZSO’s Radiance - Radiance New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Pietari Inkinen Tenor: Simon O’Neill Auckland Town Hall August 21 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Normally...
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Will AI Replace Human Labour? Revisiting a Question I First Asked in 2015 - In 2015, I wrote an essay entitled, “Will robots replace human labour and reduce real wage levels?” That essay still seems to attract quite a lot of a...
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Chasing a Racine Wright Rainbow - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) The sun was shining when we went to dinner with our grandchildren. It was sunny when we left the restaurant but the pavement and th...
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Act's "One law for all" outlined today - +1000 ACT's David Seymour outlines his policy today in a straight talking video. A good watch. And right on cue, someone in the audience asks a questio...
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Milne muses - “There is a joy of childhood which one can never recapture – the joy of getting wet in the sea. A doctor said that salt water couldn’t give you a cold. Whe...
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Mortal Limits, Human Minds - Aristotle knew what the LLMs don’t.
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Mortal Limits, Human Minds - Aristotle knew what the LLMs don’t.
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I Made a Website to Monitor Data Center Effects on Electricity Prices - They’re not having big effects
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Reading List 08/22/26 - Los Angeles’ ADUs, electrical transformer manufacturing, gas turbine power plants, how water in the Colorado River is used, and more.
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Market Wrap 22/08/2026 – $40 Trillion & The Only Path Left for the US - The Treasury just doubled long-bond buybacks. Officially it’s “liquidity.” Markets called it soft QE, and the yield curve immediately punished them.
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Weekend short read: Fire is a metaphor, until its not - Prescribed burns and unprescribed ones, and what it means to me to be where I am
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The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: Building Things - Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama discuss his lifelong hobbies—from building furniture to robotics—and why they might save us in the age of big tech.
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The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: Building Things - Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama discuss his lifelong hobbies—from building furniture to robotics—and why they might save us in the age of big tech.
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The Great Election Re-Gifting - How yesterday’s government commitments become tomorrow’s election promises
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Cheap objects slick with the oil of past hands... - Is there anywhere on earth more glorious than a (good) second hand bookshop?
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Delete Human Capital - When your moral and intellectual betters attack
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My Appearance on Rita Panahi’s Show - Discussing my upcoming documentary “The Illegal Highways”
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Chipotle Burrito Abundance - Money may be less valuable, but your time buys 21 percent more burrito compared to 2010.
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A Fee Too Far: Merchants, Surcharges, and the War on Plastic - Earlier this summer, my family took a vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, where the boardwalk offered ice cream, souvenirs, and an unexpected lesson in pay...
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Treasury Extends 45Q Safe Harbor, Giving Carbon Capture Projects a Clearer Path Forward - The U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service recently extended and expanded its Section 45Q safe harbor guidance, giving carbon captu...
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Buying a house as a mid-century modern midwit - 2.8%—that’s the mortgage rate I just gave up.
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When Smaller Models Win - Chess, LoRA, and the case for specialized AI
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More Brief Updates - Following Up on Several Recent Highlights of This Page
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Art Subsidies Are Unjust and a Violation of Free Speech - Art subsidies are unjust and a violation of free speech
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The Treasury Just Admitted It… The Bond Market Is Broken - Peter Schiff breaks down the Treasury's panic move to rescue the bond market, the $40 trillion debt milestone, and gold's $185 reversal day. The post The...
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The Thinker Identity (Part 2) - Last week, I introduced the idea of the “Thinker Identity,” and I offered that a thinker develops five characteristic ways of thinking: Decisive Essentia...
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Judicial Power, Democratic Accountability, and the Smith Case - Supreme Court lacks democratic responsibility and accountability: its excesses demand clearer leadership from the legal profession.
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The Warrigal Creek Massacre, Victoria, Australia, 1843 - A letter to the editor: Claims that the 1843 Warrigal Creek massacre was the worst in Australian history rest on surprisingly thin evidence. We explore the...
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Ep34 “On The Leafs” W/Dimes from Blood Sattelite - Dimes of BloodSatellite.ca, @ LegallyIronic on Twitter, joins me to discuss organizing in the IRL and the Prospect of Creating a Canadian people.
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Is The IPCC Reliable? - By Kees de Lange Does the IPCC represent a reliable scientific organization? In the meantime, many scientists have convincingly demonstrated that the IPC...
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"I'm Sending This Via Text Messaging to Avoid Any FOIA Issues” - Michael Osterholm told Fauci, Murthy, Walensky and Jeff Zients that cloth masks barely work and that none of the CDC's supporting studies survive scrutiny....
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Can’t Afford a House? Blame Government, Not Big Investors for Higher Housing Costs - Government, not investors, is the root problem of housing prices. Rather than take on barriers to construction, politicians find it easier to blame Wall St...
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The SEC’s Situational Awareness Is Behind the Times - At RealClearMarkets.com: “The Trump administration has improved upon the famous adage that capitalists will sell communists the rope by which the latter wo...
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Who’s Hurt Worst by Trump’s Economic Policies? - The Goods-Services Distinction No One is Noticing
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Let the Social Security Trust Fund Go to Zero - According to the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report, the Social Security Trust Fund is projected to hit zero by the end of 2032. Under current law, that ...
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The Grid’s Expanding Feasible Set, Part 1 - Power electronics is changing what we can build, control, and connect, and may ultimately change the architecture of electricity itself.
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The Grid’s Expanding Feasible Set, Part 1 - Power electronics is changing what we can build, control, and connect, and may ultimately change the architecture of electricity itself.
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Hello Again, Manzanar - In 7th grade, my English teacher had us read Farewell to Manzanar, a 1973 memoir which tells the true story of a young girl growing up inside the Manzanar ...
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The Quiet Beginning of Yield Curve Control - SCOTT BESSENT KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DOING. DO YOU?
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Bisonomics: The Story Behind America’s Comeback Species - Explore the private stories—historical and modern—that have always been at the heart of bison conservation in America The post Bisonomics: The Story Behi...
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Qatar is Targeting the Black Community: Why? And why now? - Check out our articles to learn more:
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When Bison Conservation Becomes Grounds for Losing Grazing Permits - The bison was saved by visionary ranchers. More than a century later, the federal government aims to prevent bison ranching from restoring the American p...
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A Long Shadow - For a century, one disease has hung like a cloud over the West’s most iconic animal. A Colorado lab, a federal rule change, and a shift in science are be...
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Reclaiming Bison on Fort Peck - The reservation in northeastern Montana built one of the largest tribal bison herds in the country—and demonstrated what tribal stewardship can achieve ...
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𝐈 𝐖atched 𝐓he 𝐏atriot Games So You Don’T Have To - America's best white home schoolers competed at field day activities to see who gets a higher education.
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COVID: OFF-LABEL - Medsafe approved Pfizer’s booster at six months. New Zealand moved to five, then to four, and finally, three. The more interesting story is how the law cha...
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Event: Tempo Dance Festival – Oct 2026 - Celebrating 25 years, Tempo Dance Festival | Te Rerenga o Tere is Aotearoa New Zealand’s gathering ground for the fearless, the rebellious and the boundary...
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Gold And Silver Led The Current Run In Interest Rates; Diesel Shortage Hits Markets; Trump Calls UAE After Its Gold Transfer To Iran - An interesting pattern has been developing since 2018.
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Claude is now smarter than me - An amazing conversation with my favorite AI agent
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Can religion save us from ennui? TS Eliot's The Cocktail Party: Online play-reading on November 1. - Sign up to choose a role.
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Three Years Later - On the approaching anniversary of my father's death
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Two Experiments, One Law - Rome, 1907. Montreal, 1954. Neither laboratory knew about the other. They read the same law from opposite directions.
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Two Experiments, One Law - Rome, 1907. Montreal, 1954. Neither laboratory knew about the other. They read the same law from opposite directions.
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Therapy? - It’s a given that even someone who has never listened to Therapy? has heard Screamager... The post Therapy? appeared first on Toppermost.
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It takes two hands to handle a Whopper - Well, not anymore.
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Does Congress Even Have a Critical Minerals Strategy? - Prospects for the Remainder of the 119th Session
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Lifeless to Living - When does matter become life?
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How a Self-help Book Resolved a Philosophical Conundrum Part 1 - A commentary on the underlying philosophy of Shane Parrish's *Clear Thinking* As my readers may know, I've long been a fan of the so-called self-help move...
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CHRISTOPHER LUXON – Enemy of New Zealand? - By John McLean Christopher Luxon might be a bit short on governing skills but when it comes to selfishness and lack of patriotism he seems to be right up...
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Libertarian Movies for Students: Top Ten - Of the nearly three hundred libertarian films and documentaries identified and reviewed on this site, we picked just 10 (and then got excited and added two...
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The real tragedy of the Jason Arday story - It's a well worn cliche that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the tragic death of Jason Arday has highlighted the signposts to that he...
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Power of Sovereignty - Don’t Play Inside the System
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Power of Sovereignty - Don’t Play Inside the System
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The DSA Can Abolish Bills—It Can’t Abolish Costs - The Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) new platform promises a world without bills.
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Links to my writing about the 1914 fire and murders at Taliesin - Reading Time: 2 minutesAlbert Rockwell took this on Taliesin’s Hill Crown looking (plan) northeast at its living quarters after the August 15, 1914 fire....
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Ina Ganguli on the Supply of Innovators - Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Lecture 3.
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The end of “post-apartheid South Africa” and the birth of normal and better politics - So far the rainbow nation has been a sterling example of reconciliation and peaceful decolonization. Now the hard work of doing normal bare-knuckle pro-gro...
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Village People - Does training that emphasizes mission, duty, and systemic analysis over personal grievance produce resilience?
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Outliving Iran: A Memoir (Part 2) - The significance of a car, dial-up, and tear gas
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Comment re Public Service Announcements: Election Meltdown - Message from Circa:Public Service Announcements: Election MeltdownMore shows added – on now until 5 September! Coup schmoo!The real news is that Public S...
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Record Low Lake Mead: “Millennium Drought” or Inevitable Result of Demand Exceeding Supply? - Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam is now within several feet of the lowest level at which turbine power generation must be greatly curtailed. Recent news article...
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Books: “Knife” by Salman Rushdie - On its fourth anniversary, Scott Holleran reviews an American author in America’s memoir of the marginalized August 12, 2022 Islamic assassination attempt ...
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The Worst Academic Scandal in 817 Years! - The Jason Arday Story
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One contradiction in the fear of laissez-faire - Here’s one contradiction—of countless such—in the fear of unregulated markets. The contradiction is implicit in the oft-heard claim that the financial cris...
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Does Early Access to Social Media Harm Later Learning? New Evidence from Italy - Students who got social media accounts by age 12 progressed less than those who waited until age 14
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Global Shield Briefing (August 2026) - The UK's resilience action plan and national risk register, and new polling on public perceptions of global threats
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Meet the 2026 Blog-Building Intensive Fellows - 42 outstanding fellows joined our 4th cohort!
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Google's unprecedented lapse - On August 3, a bug in Google's automated security system disabled hundreds, and probably thousands, of Blogger blogs. ¶ [image: A classical portrait of ...
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"Pruning Season" - A poem contemplating impermanence, and a book announcement
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Britannia’s Rules - We’re often asked what entrepreneurs in our network think about the country. The truth is, it’s been hard to give a precise answer. Until now. This week ...
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The Witch on the Pitfalls of Altruistic Motherhood - The Witch shows the importance of gaining the courage to pursue your own values through dreary contrast.
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The Jews and Antisemitism - In May of 1953, two first-grade girls were waiting for a school bus at the corner of a quiet suburban street.
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New project: Real In Its Consequences - Who controls how we define mental illness?
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The Unfitted Kitchen: a timely return to common sense - An unfitted kitchen isn't simply a collection of freestanding pieces. It's about designing a room in a holistic way and begins before designing the cabinets.
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Morphing - When institutions rely on predefined indicators, dashboards, and standardized categories, they begin to treat these tools as reality itself.
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The Last 0.2%: Solar, Batteries and the Cost of Eliminating Gas - A ten-year thought experiment across South Australia, Victoria and NSW
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Medieval beach reads - How to read Middle English and Scots texts in the original
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Thank You for an Incredible Launch! - Your support means the world. Here's where you can find me next.
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Learning to Meet People Where They Are - Lots of group chats I am part of consist of Brazilian people.
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Forget the Worksheets: This Is How Children Really Learn Math - Many parents believe that completing pages of math worksheets is the best way to improve a child’s math skills. The truth is that children learn mathemat...
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Yet more “pretty (il)legal” stuff from the Reserve Bank - A month or so ago the Reserve Bank announced the appointment of a new Assistant Governor (a deputy chief executive) responsible for its financial stability...
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Yen Turning Point - While official intervention captures the headlines, the credit creation fundamentals are the strongest indication of a change in direction of the yen again...
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REVIEW: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey Rinker - Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, Sherri Duskey Rinker (illus.
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The Sunshine Redistribution Act - On July 14, the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act (“SPA”) by a vote of 308 to 117. The bill would abolish the twice-yearly clock ...
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UPDATE: Top 25 Liberty Events and Conferences in 2026-2027 - Want to make new friends, learn about liberty, and network with pro-liberty thinkers?
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The Military’s Fraudulent JFK Autopsy Converted a Conspiracy Theory to a Conspiracy - The Future of Freedom Foundation is posting my new video commentary entitled Housewives Underground: A Video Commentary, which is an amplification of my ...
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IFP Update: July 2026 - We saw a major housing policy milestone in July: the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law.
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SUBMISSION ON THE INDIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL - *To:* Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee *Submitted by:* Democracy Action Inc. PO Box 87141 Meadowbank 1742
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The James C. Scott Memorial Episode - “Scott, by God, that man has earned it.”
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No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
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No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
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On becoming less full of shit - This post is inspired by a series of articles that Dan Williams wrote on the subject of “becoming less left-wing.” While I found that series interesting in...
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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff - The Summer 2026 Edition
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Your Favorite Regulation Is Probably Hurting You - Most people think regulations protect the poor. The data says the opposite.
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High Speed Rail Update: the alignment in northwest Harris County is (unofficially) DEAD, but could Terafab make a Robotaxi project possible? - Updated August 6 with new information about Terafab, and some speculation about another possible outcome for the corridor (see Terafab section) Another exc...
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Intelligence is not the main bottleneck - Confessions of a naive hamster: why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real world
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In Roosevelt’s Arena - PERC joins America's conservation leaders at the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library The post In Roosevelt’s Arena appeared firs...
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How Nigeria did IMF Reforms Without the IMF - How Babangida "rejected the IMF" but did most of the IMF reforms in an interesting way
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Bill Birch saved my life, and other reminiscences of an important NZ politician’s career - Bill Birch, who died on Friday, probably saved my life. It was 1983. He was Minister of Energy in Rob Muldoon’s National Party government and as such had o...
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Gena Gorlin and Linda Mann on building a life of art - A recording from Dr. Gena Gorlin's live video
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Why both Republicans and Democrats should support aggressive permitting reform - Bipartisan deals are often impossible, but on permitting it’s totally possible—because permitting delays kill projects that members of both parties deeply ...
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Thank you, British Academy - I am deeply honored to be named an International Fellow of the British Academy.
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Episode 3 - A Visceral Reaction - Megha Lillywhite Breaks the Spell of Children’s Illustration
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Religion, Power, and Liberty: When Faith Seeks to Rule - The steadfast gaze of one who refuses to be silenced before the whip: the beauty and pride of Parastoo Ahmadi are the very translation of resistance agains...
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The Declared Principle of America - With the recent 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, I thought it was appropriate to write about the key idea, the Declared Princ...
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Definition of Woman and Man Bill – a return to Truth - It should never have come to this. Our MPs debating the definition of a man or a woman. But the fact that it has, means we have arrived at a critical infle...
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How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State - The engine is revving after years of war.
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The personal cost of political tribalism - People suffer when partisans sacrifice personal decency for The Cause™.
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Stories of American exit in the nation's 250th year - Special Issue Release: The Opt-Out Nation
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Twisted Teens: Florida Water Blues - Way back in 1963 in his liner notes to the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me, the PR man/reviewer Tony Barrow opened his extensive liner essay with “...
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Newberry Books - For over five decades, Michael Newberry has painted, taught, and written about art with a single conviction: that art is the technology of the soul. These ...
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Winston Peters announces citizens-only voting policy - New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, today in Warkworth, has unveiled a strong new policy to restore integrity to the country’s electoral system.
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From Fireworks to Flying Flags - And Other Symbols of Liberty
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How skills, agents, and other AI features work - It’s prompts all the way down
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mudslide - on getting swept up in other people's concerns
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The cars that ate Vivian Street - part 1 - Wellington City boasts an enviable location, nestled tightly around a sheltered port on a harbour that curls in from the ocean. It’s a dense and lively c...
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Good Sign: Business Spending is Finally Making a Comeback! - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
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Project: 'Rural' Renovation, 2012 - I've been asked again about old projects. About which I really should talk more. Here's one that was slightly unusual, renovation of a large old colonial ...
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AI’s Builders Are Both Arrogant and Afraid - The builders of the terrible, doomed tower of Babel sought to reach the sky to make a name for themselves. Was their sin one of overweening ambition? In ...
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Progress in Medicine, the Roots of Progress Institute’s new summer career exploration program, has started - 30 high school students are learning about the history and future of medicine, biotech, health Starting June 15th, the Roots of Progress team brought tog...
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Hotter Than July (Secondhand Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *SECONDHAND *Type: *STEVIE WONDER *Price: * 20.00 Artist: Stevie Wonder Year: 1980 Genre: Funk / Soul Sub-Genre: Soul, Disco Tracklist: A1. Di...
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Five Ideas to Survive a Hot, Dry Summer - The West is dry, overdue for fire, and running low on water. The institutions meant to help are struggling to keep up. Here's where to start. The post Fi...
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More evidence won’t save development - We don’t need more studies. We need a new coalition rebuilt on political priorities
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The Effective Egoist Case for Freedom - It is striking, sad, and not at all surprising how little interest there is in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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Coase versus Demsetz on the neoclassical model - In the modern, Coaseian-inspired view of the neoclassical model, there are no firms. Harold Demsetz sums up the Coasian view of the neoclassical model succ...
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2B RED: On the matter of maps🍋 - Learning from your atlas
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How Traveling Raised My Confidence (And Can Raise Yours Too) - Time to get uncomfortable
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AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
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AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
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Kenya Wants to Sell Your Data. But It’s Complicated. - The headline is scarier than the policy. The policy is still worth worrying about.
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President Trump’s Childhood Vaccine Schedule - Donald Trump recently issued two executive orders claiming that children in the United States are receiving too many vaccines.
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Relationship Issues - We humans aren’t good at imagining things outside our experience so it’s only human that we’ve now gone and built this thing called AI that’s not good at i...
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The beauty in the broken glass - How an Animated Musical helped me find my authentic self.
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Varieties of Dualism, Part Five - "I am my feelings"
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Pride Month: Right On Target! - Life on Earth With Robert Nasir - Episode 95 - streamed live on Jun 1, 2023
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Teetotallers and the Decline of Human Civilisation. - Alcohol is having its tobacco moment. Young people are going off it, and a growing chorus of busybodies would like the rest of us to give it up completel...
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utopian usonia - Beautiful tour of the Bertha & Sol Friedman Residence in the Usonia community of Pleasantville, NY, narrated by the owner of the house, Brian Renz. The hou...
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Can AI Be The Thing That Finally Aligns Humanity? - Getting AI to do what we want is the easy part. The real challenge is figuring out what we actually want in the first place.
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Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer - The post Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer appeared first on spiked.
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The Practice of Integrated Human Attention - The Benedictine Rule and the hesychast tradition of Mount Athos are the most rigorously tested models of integrated attention ever developed. What might we...
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Still Performing: Jim Henson, Kyle Busch, and the Danger of Powering Through - Jim Henson and Kyle Busch lived in different worlds, but their deaths share a haunting pattern: two elite performers, still creating and competing, appar...
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What Spirituality Really Means - Is spirituality about “God” or something else?
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The “Great Upzoning” of New Zealand’s cities, in two charts - Taking stock of 15 years of remarkable progress
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Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition - batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory
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Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
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Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
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No, native schools did not ban te reo - While considering Elizabeth Rata's recent Research Report into the History of New Zealand Education -- which I recommend, by the way -- I remembered a l...
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INTERVIEW: "Celebrating the work of New Zealand architect, Claude Megson" - Great to see so many at the launch last week of Giles Reid's and Jackie Meiring's book on Claude Megson -- it was literally standing room only! (I could ...
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A little progress is worth a trillion dollars - Estimating the value of progress with a rough calculation and a new web tool
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TVNZ – a reassessment - Apart from 7 years abroad I have grown up with TVNZ’s channel one and was privileged to serve six years on its board – 2011 to 2017 Up until recently I ret...
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Fragrant Lamb & Coconut Curry - Jonny – this one’s for you! I love a good butter chicken (not that sickeningly sweet version – I’m talking about the deeply aromatic and creamy type). Some...
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PsycHHology Engineering: What is Narcissism? Narcissism—as used in modern day cultural wars--is two things: - (1) replacement mental-illness du jour for Contemporary (1 'h) psychology's most recent mental-illness-bipolar-disorder-soup and (2) a euphemism for Selfis...
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Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded - It was capital, not education
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Los científicos analizan la estabilidad del universo tras la desaparición de Chuck Norris - Expertos analizan si las leyes de la física y la estabilidad del universo cambiarán tras la muerte de Chuck Norris y el fin de sus "Condiciones". ¡Descúbrelo!
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China and the Future of Science - [The following post is a polished transcript of a speech I recently gave to a private gathering of American technologists.
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Teaching Physics Inductively - James Ellias’s Inductive Summary of Physics
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Geoffrey Miller: New Zealand’s next steps as Middle East war escalates - New Zealand is once again feeling the fallout of a geopolitical crisis. With a de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in place, oil prices soared past t...
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A Morality of Choice - There is a great deal of work left to do to turn the completed draft of The Prophet of Causation into a published book, including sorting through all the t...
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Help has arrived. - After almost 50 years of chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”…
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Help has arrived. - After almost 50 years of chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”…
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MAGA Isn’t Making America Great - Kiyah breaks down her views on Trump and the MAGA movement.
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On Mediocrity - One of the harshest words in my vocabulary is "mediocre". Let me tell you what I mean by it.
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W - Kanopi deleted page W Removing all content created by Kapitalizt
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Does China care about AGI? - Chinese tech leaders and researchers talk openly about AGI. But Chinese policymakers don't seem focused on the "race to AGI" like in the US.
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Why I am suing Texas Tech - And how you can help
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All about the latest writing scams - There’s a new writing scam doing the rounds just now. Authors are being stalked online by strangers purporting to represent a ‘book club’, or who are ‘affi...
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Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin - A philosophical discussion on ethics and mathematics. The post Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin appeared first on SAVVY S...
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Socialism is for losers - And Capitalism doesn't need a PR team
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The End is Near - I am no longer posting on this website. You can continue reading my posts at jbrianphillips.com The post The End is Near appeared first on Texas Institut...
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Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
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Good News Story. - *Gospel:* What, after all, is a magic spell, if not a formulation of words to effect actual change in the real world? Wasn’t that why the Greek followers ...
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The Chinese Academy of Sciences' Space Program - Plus overseas announcements from Star.Vision, GeeSpace, and SpaceIoT, lots more SatNet Satellites, and a Zhuque-3 partial success (plus me on TV!)
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How South Korea's job market motivates intensive parenting - A new article in Works in Progress & some extra context
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Inflation: an economic problem or a source of political polarization? - In his book Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt explains how inflation polarizes society by creating a sense of injustice.As inflation accelerates, peop...
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Great news!! MMEF have secured a permanent home for the AMI 3-6 Diploma, starting in April 2026 - Kia ora Koutou MMEF Supporters, Yes, we used two exclamation marks in our headline above--that's because we are so excited! Our latest news, whi...
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Cities need infrastructure to grow, but Roads of National Significance ain’t it - Tell the government that Wellington deserves better in the next two weeks!
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👀 🎧 New podcast: ALT BLACK POD - Three contrarian voices unpack the culture — identity, power, and the post-woke internet. Ft. Inaya Folarin Iman, Ralph Leonard and Renie Anjeh
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Is free speech a right wing conspiracy? - When I was a left wing student, protesting against NZ’s Security Intelligence Service, the Vietnam War and other trending causes, it would have been inconc...
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Constrained and framed? The limitation of academic freedom by research funding and strategies - While most debate on academic freedom concerns the question of what can be stated, argued, proffered and responded to – and how, such a focus has enabled a...
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When Your Child is Sick - (And: Come See Me This Thursday, October 16, in Beverly Hills!)
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Ep. 17 - Change the World Be a Mom (Sheila Qualls) - Listen now | An interview with wife and mother of five Sheila Qualls
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Progress on the Carrington (UNITEC) housing development - In 2023, I published the following post on the plans for the development of land that was formerly part of the Carrington UNITEC Campus.
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How can more young people enter careers and fulfil their potential - Many young New Zealanders feel that a social contract has been breached. This tacit contract is that, if students worked and studied hard, the government ...
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Musk invokes "rape of Europe" in anti-immigrant rant - On X, Elon Musk has spent the past week cheering on anti-immigrant protests and political movements worldwide, including in England, Wales, Ireland, Japan,...
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Designing an Effective Retail Checkout Counter to Enhance Customer Experience - A well-designed retail checkout counter is more than just a register—it’s one of the most important touchpoints in a customer’s shopping journey. It sets t...
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Who are the voters swinging away from Christopher Luxon? - An investigation into the voters who switched from Labour to National in 2023 - and are trending away from the party now. Featuring a lot of charts.
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I Learned to Be Still, and Life Got Louder - Finding the symphony hidden in the spaces between moments
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Good News for Euro 6 - New Zealand to import only Euro 6d vehicles from 2028
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We've moved! - Science for Everyone is still at scienceforeveryone.science, but no longer on Substack
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The National Environmental Policy Act and Climate Change Adaption Within Federal Natural Resource Management Agencies - This academic paper explores how NEPA may be hindering federal agencies from adapting to climate change. The post The National Environmental Policy Act ...
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Click Here for General Discussion Posts • Article: "Step Back in Time at These 12 Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Across the USA" - Step Back in Time at These 12 Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Across the USA David Statistics: Posted by DavidC — Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:35 pm ---------------------...
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Think glass is safer? It might actually have more microplastics than plastic bottles—because of the caps! - https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/drinks-in-glass-bottles-contain-more-microplastics-than-those-plastic-bottles-401316
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Important Announcements - I’m going in, this Substack's going on ice, and a book is coming
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DownToEarth.Kiwi Closing Due to Threats from National & Labour Parties & Big Business NZ Incorporated - It'd be nice to think we've added something these past years to improve the prosperity of NZ. We were the only economic commentary source...
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Gamal Abdel Nasser's Last Gamble - Inside the private conversation where Egypt’s president confronted the lies, the losses, and an Arab world that wouldn’t fight the war it claimed to want
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Tải App 33win – Lợi Ích Tuyệt Vời Khi Tải App - Tải app 33win chính là lựa chọn tối ưu dành cho những ai muốn tham gia giải trí mọi lúc, mọi nơi. Trong bài viết này, chúng tôi sẽ hướng dẫn chi tiết cách ...
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Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
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THE WORKING FROM HOME RACKET BY PUBLIC SERVANTS - Last year the government announced the working from home racket by public servants was to cease from January, 2025. The public service protested and since ...
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Password Reset - Reset Password Reset Your Password The post Password Reset appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
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We’re moving to skeptic.com! - As of April 2, 2025, this Substack will serve as an archive and will no longer be active.
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Introduction to “The Princess Scientist” - As a female and mother who navigated the world of academia in the biomedical sciences, I have been working on a book that talks about the real “sex discrim...
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LLMs and the Nature of Honest Authorship - Editing is not authoring.
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Round 1 2025 — The Smithening - I posted my last blog on the Cats on June 6 2023 — a marvel at how we’d beaten the Western Bulldogs with no midfield to speak of — and it’s fair to say a...
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I'm going to work on AI welfare at Eleos AI Research! - We need to start taking seriously the implications of digital minds—both for their potential welfare and our own.
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Tariffs - A tariff is a fancy word for a tax. The term usually refers to import duties, which are fees levied on goods entering one country from another. Import ta...
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February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
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Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Godless Universe - In the 1880s, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was at his intellectual peak.
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Papers on Valuing and Desires from our January 2025 session - Please find the following papers attached:
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Papers on Valuing and Desires from our January 2025 session - Please find the following papers attached:
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Libertarian Rescue Mission: Can Milei save the Peso? - Javier Milei shocked the political establishment when he romped to victory in the Argentine Presidential election in 2023. A proud anarcho-capitalist, he t...
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Farewell (for now), and thank you. - Many lines from The Simpsons are imprinted in my brain, but there is one that I think about often.
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The intolerable alliance. - Mexico's state and Mexico's cartels, a singular threat.
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Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
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Attn. National Association of Realtors: You cannot go to hell fast enough for me. - “Baby, now that I’ve found you, I can’t let you go. I’ll build my world around you. I need you so, baby, even though you don’t need me. You don’t need me…”...
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🎄On the something day of Christmas 🎵🥂 - It's that time of the year again
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It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
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Mousey And The Dreams Of Our Mothers’ Mothers: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview - Mousey is the nom-de-plum of Christchurch-based artist Sarena Close and she is just about to release her very personal third album, The Dreams Of Our Mot...
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DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
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Revolutionizing Financial Management: The Benefits and Features of Natco Credit Union’s Online Banking Services - In today's fast-paced digital age, convenience and accessibility are paramount, especially when it comes to... The post Revolutionizing Financial Managem...
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Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet - Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city...
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Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet - Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city...
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We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
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WORD CHCH Literature Festival 2024: 13th Floor Report - [image: WORD] The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani headed south to Christchurch to take in the WORD CHCH Literature Festival. Here is her report: I spent the ...
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A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...
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A Journey of Death - "When he was released ahead of schedule from his prison sentence of nearly 20 years, Jiao Zhimin was in his early forties. On his way to his father’s hou...
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Not One of Us - Recent attacks by opposition MPs on ACT party MPs Karen Chhour and David Seymour about not being "Māori enough" and the like reveal more about the attacker...
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What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
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What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
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What Happened to Technological Optimism? - I haven't given up the good fight. I'm just taking it to a more fundamental level.
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Why you, personally, should want a larger human population - Also: The City That Can't, how to raise a genius, FDA reform, and more
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The Great Book ‘Nobody’ Will Remember - An interview with Drew Beckmeyer
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In the Aftermath of the $355 Million Ruling Against Trump, Business Owners Are Even Less Safe than Before - By: Daniel Kowalski Willing buyer and willing seller. These five words form the very basis from which the system of capitalism is based on. You have someth...
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Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
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The Popehat Report Is Moving To Beehiiv - As I mentioned before, the Popehat Report is moving to Beehiiv, a different platform for blogs and newsletters. You can find it at www.popehat.com. The nex...
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An economic philosopher of the highest rank - He explains how capitalism, and only capitalism, can and does make us prosperous. Alas, he also shows how rare this perspective is by being so rare himself...
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Where I’m Coming From - In today’s toxically polarized climate, individuals willing to engage openly in civil discourse with people they may disagree with are all too rare and mer...
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A 2024 Mid-Priced Automobile Sells for the Same $300 Price Paid for a Model T Ford in 1924 - It really does, if you can pay for it in *Gold* dollars. Based on the present price of gold bullion, of approximately $2,000 per ounce, a twenty-dollar U...
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Is the government staying true to its promises? - In November 2023, National released the coalition agreements made with ACT and NZ First. The Coalition Government agrees to defend the principle that Ne...
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Won't somebody think of the children - I’ve been working with children lately. I have been astonished and astounded by how creative they are. It must be physiological. It’s just a fact that th...
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The BBC and terrorism - The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be… The post The BBC and terrorism appeared first on Continental ...
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Dean Preston: San Francisco's Millionaire Marxist - the card carrying dsa sf politician also happens to be a millionaire who refuses to allow more housing in the city
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Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
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By: Better to be popular than right « Economics.org.au - […] Bert Kelly […]
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Some Links - (Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the truth abou...
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Breaking Performance Addiction... - ... and wrapping up my first season of Origin Stories
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It’s Crunch Time for The Daily Doom and Doom Time for The Great Recession Blog - The Great Recession Blog is officially done for good, and my writing continues on TheDailyDoom.com. This site will eventually be completely terminated. If ...
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So They Smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven - Hot on the heels of the Theatre Royal in Stratford promoting a Black Out evening, a performance of the play Tambo and Bones which they...
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Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
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Conservatives Can Lead on Conservation and Climate Solutions - Supporting policies that leverage incentives and partnerships to protect our natural heritage should be a big part of our strategy to address environment...
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Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
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Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
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Willey House Stories Part 22: Calling the Kettle Back—Chapter 7: Repatriation - In this seven-chapter subseries of the Willey House Stories, Steve Sikora reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright’s fireplaces, their purpose, and meaning—and the...
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Highlighting "The Parenting Handbook" - This fall, Montessorium was lucky to bring education writer Samantha Blaisdell onto our content team. Samantha is a former teacher, trained mechanical engi...
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Activity: The Virtue of Beneficence - Use this quotation from Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments to discuss whether we can be forced to be generous and kind.
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What you still can't say on Twitter - Suspended for 12 hours
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1988: The Meade Report - In 1987 Labour 4.0 Prime Minister David Lange gave himself the education portfolio shortly after winning re-election that year. One of the education groups...
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‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?) - “Fear among corporate firms of being called out on misleading and or exaggerated environmental and sustainability claims is growing as regulators clamp ...
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‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?) - “Fear among corporate firms of being called out on misleading and or exaggerated environmental and sustainability claims is growing as regulators clamp ...
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Receipts for BMS Ep 254: Kark Marx Was Kind of a Big Deal - Here is the link to my podcast critique of Phil Magness’ promotion of his paper, co-authored with Michael Makovi, on Karl Marx. In this episode I allude to...
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World Cup Wonderfulness - In Australia - I attended a World Cup final this weekend. No it was not the "team of $55m" wonderfulness final. It was a T20 cricket one. In Melbourne. England v P...
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World Cup Wonderfulness - In Australia - I attended a World Cup final this weekend. No it was not the "team of $55m" wonderfulness final. It was a T20 cricket one. In Melbourne. England v P...
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Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
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Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
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Crab Nebula: the Real 4th of July Fireworks - On around the 4th of July 1054 a supernova exploded, creating the spectacular Crab Nebula. It was recorded by Chinese astronomers but was it also recorded ...
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How to Deal with Your Psoriasis Symptoms - Learn more about psoriasis, its warning signs and how to treat it. Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that can impact a person’s appearance, ...
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The Silver Linings of the April CPI Report - May 18, 2022 Despite persistent inflation, there are good investment opportunities ahead in several niche areas. The post The Silver Linings of the April...
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Our Individual Rights Are Going Down The Bathtub Inflation Overflow Drain - I’ve recently tried to brush up on my inflation skills. Being young and ignorant the last time it seriously impacted ... Continue reading
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How to Lose - Anger is not the answer. I. Calibrating to Humanity The first company I ever started was with my partner who’s also a software engineer. We had spoken to a...
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JOURNAL OA+D V10:N1 :: COMING SOON - $20.00 - JOURNAL OF ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN VOL. 10 / NO. 1 :: COMING SOON :: THE WORK OF MACKIE AND KAMRATH :: ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE IN TEXAS Essay by Katie P...
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Blog Number 7 - Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph...
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Witness J – Another Victim of National Security’s Tightening Grip? - Too few Australians know about the case of Witness J – not to be confused with the case against Witness K and Bernard Collaery, itself a disgraceful overre...
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Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
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Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
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Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
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Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
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The Case for Vaccine Mandates—Refuted - Vaccination status doesn’t tell us whether a person poses a threat to others.
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Sample post. - Checking to see if RSS works.
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How to Boost Economic Growth and Sustain it? - Economic growth is nothing but GDP increase that refers to the combined value of products and services a country produces annually. So, obviously economi...
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The Rat Cap Podcast: Episode 13 - The Rat Cap Podcast: The History of Slavery and the Western Heroes Who Abolished It (libsyn.com)Slavery has existed everywhere since the beginning of time....
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Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption - Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption
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The Psychology of QE is Far More Important Than the Amount of It - Let's discuss what QE really does vs the psychology of QE.
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Two upcoming events. - There are two upcoming events that are likely to be of interest to Ayn Rand Society members. The first event—the one not put on by the ARS—is a panel at ne...
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Senator Marco Rubio says business-as-usual with Beijing is “not an option” - In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a "genocidal regime" which poses "the greatest thre...
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Remember the Alamo - I first learned about the Alamo in earnest from the late John David Lewis. This Objectivist thinker and teacher demonstrated the central facts about the ba...
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By: Joshua - My home is about 4000 feet from a proposed 650 foot 5mw turbine and 7000 feet from another. Can you respond to what your recommended setbacks may be for th...
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The launch of the new Economic History Society website – and the new home of the The Long Run blog - The Economic History Society is very happy to launch its new website as of November 2020. This site streamlines everything that the Society has to offer, i...
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Fire Insurance Regs Hurt California Homeowners - The unintended consequences of California’s price restrictions on insurance rates leave insurers unable to cover losses after catastrophic wildfire damag...
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More Evidence of Buyback Failure - The Kiwi Gun Blog has been gathering as much hard data as possible to prove what a disaster the gun buy back was. Here is a classic example – The wonderful...
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Making the UN Global Goals A Reality: Why Trade, Enterprise & Weather Intelligence Matters - The UN General Assembly is this month marking 75 years since it came into being — 75 years of international cooperation, dialogue and work for developmen...
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Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann - Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann There’s a new crew on deck at the mighty Malthouse. Old faces have left for new adventures, replaced by a new inter...
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In Congo, the Church is doing the government’s business - Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside letting the door thud shut The opening lines of…
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Neil Peart: Enlightenment in Verse (and Romanticism in Rock) - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13145 Neil Peart was a polymath: a rock drummer, jazz drumm...
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Publications, January - Welcome to the next decade! Exciting, isn't it? There are some minor changes here too. From now on, I'll post some of my work on Medium –particularly work ...
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Facebook & Government Responses to CLP Amicus Brief Reveal Conflicting Views of Your Privacy Under Imminent Settlement - Those of you who have been following CLP’s involvement in United States v. Facebook know that, in our amicus brief … Continue reading →
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From West to East: Bolivian regional GDPs since the 1950s - *José Peres-Cajías* *Universitat de Barcelona* The political disruption that is taking place worldwide during the last years has prompted the proliferati...
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Immigration Reform or Revolution? - The idea of unconditionally open international borders, and entirely free migration across them, faces a great deal of resistance. Resistance comes, not on...
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Holding pattern - I am to attend the next meeting of the Hamilton Press Club on Friday the 13th – speaker: Patrick Gower – so should have a report to post next week. Also th...
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Own Jones telling... - Via Timmy, I see that Owen Jones *keeps* writing articles... Why I am campaigning for Labour in this seismic election Presumably it's because you're an evi...
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01/20/2020 – Atlanta, GA - MLK Day 2020: Irshad speaks at the official service to commemorate the 91st birthday and timeless legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From the sanctuar...
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CLP Amicus Brief Gets Coverage in Law360! - Law360, a legal news site for professionals, published an article about three amicus briefs filed in United States v. Facebook. … Continue reading →
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By: Zaphod Dentbrox III PHD - You guys are a bunch of suckers for hipster creatives at an ad agency,
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Travel Secrets: In Defense of Men’s Rights - The theme of the Travel Secrets trilogy is femininity. In book one, our heroine, Rachel, was battling her own demons as she conquered her misconception of ...
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The Evil of Equity - The New Zealand Government has caught the equity bug. Everywhere you look they are trying to achieve it. I asked a senior public servant recently what he ...
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The Land of the Rising Sun: My Trip to Japan - Dr. Thomas Sowell has mentioned Japan and Scotland as miracles numerous times in his works, so I thought I will visit it. And was he correct, Japan really ...
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William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
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14 Practical steps to improve Cash Flow - A positive cash flow keeps the heart of any business pumping, but a negative cash flow will eventually cause the business to fail. A growing business may...
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Why a Free Society Cannot Transform Wishes into Rights - Only by defending voluntary arrangements, respecting one another’s self-ownership, can we achieve positive progress.
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Encouraging Problem Solving - “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” –Maria Montessori This quote speaks volumes to what the end goal is in a Montessori ed...
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Internationalization of the Yuan Continues Apace - To the unobservant, which includes most politicians, the United States remains a strong and resolute empire. Just witness the statements from Democratic ...
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Amalgamation and Streamlining City Governance: the Auckland Experiment So Far - *The performance of the Super City – so far, so so* Previous posts indicate that amalgamating local government in Auckland has not yielded efficiencies. Ca...
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The value of value-added in schools - We’re developing New Zealand’s first contextualised value-added model to help evaluate New Zealand secondary schools on a variety of outcome measures. Joel...
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Shifting from Central Planning to a Decentralised Economy - by Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon) Paper presented at the 14th Rhodes Forum: Dialogue of Civilisations Research Institute, Panel 2: […]
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Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate Change - Journalist and author Moises Velasquez-Manoff talks about the role of dirt in fighting climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Velasquez-Manoff exp...
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Chipping in for Kane on The Spinoff - sportreview.net.nz was lucky enough to contribute to top website The Spinoff, plumping for Kane Williamson as our greatest ever batsman, despite him only b...
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Hang them High! - Car thieves. Preferable drag-hang the scum! Our car has had a window broken, ignition switch mangled and the dash trim torn apart by an inept, useless shi...
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Ockham on Induction - Summa Logicae, part 3-3, chapters 31–36, trans. John P. McCaskey, September 18, 2017 The text here is from Opera Philosophica, The post Ockham on Inducti...
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A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners - A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners James Brasuell Wed, 07/12/2017 - 09:00 Primary Image [image: Philadelphia Park] "A joint venture between The Nature Con...
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The Argument for Stopping Urban Sprawl - It's true that only about 1 part in 125 of New Zealand's land area is covered over in sprawl, with much less than that being actually built on (much of the...
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Half-formed thoughts of the day - I was thinking about the Women’s March on Washington, and the global nature of it, and also the global nature of the White Nationalist movement: Trump, Put...
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Sherman Booth House For Sale - The Sherman Booth House in Glencoe, Illinois is for sale. The asking price is $1.9 million. The house is a late Prairie Style design, dating from 1915. T...
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Richard Neutra Pillow - *Vendor: *Printful *Type: *Pillow *Price: * 34.00 A simple way to dress up any sofa, chair, bed, or room with a pop of color and a bold double-sided gr...
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Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters, new work by Mina - [image: NewlyDrawnGirl.jpg] *Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters - new work by Mina opening 12 March, 5 - 8 pm* On a recent trip to Japan, Mina fell in love wit...
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What’s the Best Sparkling Water for Cocktails? - We’re here to talk about sparkling water in cocktails. But first: My Obsessive Nature, a.k.a. A Briefish, Seemingly Unrelated Disclaimer on Why Its Hard to...
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Prices Only Going Up in Auckland - New figures showing Auckland’s median house price have reached a record high of $820,000 comes as no surprise to Affordable Auckland spokesman Stephen Berr...
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National’s Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism Monster - iPredict the State Gulag - This piece of Soviet legislation took down the brilliant iPredict today: *Prediction website iPredict is to be closed down, with the Government deciding ...
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The Right to Die: Philosophy in Action Podcast - On Sunday's episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, I answered a question on the right to die. The question was: Should a person who does not wish to live b...
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Liz Cheney: Obama is uniquely dangerous president - Above video is set to start at 9 min 46 sec. Transcript Megyn Kelly: Do you think that President Obama is dangerous? Liz Cheney: Yes … I think there’s no q...
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Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
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IP Anyone? - Intellectual Property Anyone? Tibor R. Machan There is a debate afoot now about whether one ever owns the likes of a novel, poem, computer game, song, arra...
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Jesse Colombo’s Interview On The Doug McIntyre Show On 790 KABC - I had an interview with Doug McIntyre on 790 KABC today, and here is the audio file. I will also upload this to Youtube shortly. Jesse Colombo’s Interview ...
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Willing and Eager Subjects in Training - Obama recently cautioned a group of graduating college kids that some of the arguments flowing to them via their "iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStatio...
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