The Origins of Myanmar’s Coup Culture
The “Burmese Way to Socialism” may have failed as an economic experiment, but as a statist mechanism for perpetual military dictatorship, it has proven to be a devastating success.
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This ‘Temporary’ Bill Still Costs
This is what I’d call the government spending spiral – a self-reinforcing doom loop where each dollar spent justifies even more spending. PepsiCo alone spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep their highly processed junk food eligible for food stamps.
The Greatest Financial Scam in History?
We can’t recapture the $16 trillion wasted on a false crisis. Sunk costs are, alas, sunk. The one sliver of good news is that it appears the climate change neuroses have finally started to subside.
They Can Be Kept Out for Good – Legally
There’s nothing stopping the government banning ‘ISIS brides’ – except the will to do it.
Legacy Media Keeps Covering Up
Can we stop pretending there is no correlation between transgenderism and dangerous mental instability?
A Ban To Stop the Pillaging
NZ First implements ban to stop the “rape of the rockpools”.
Unhinged Attack Is Not a Good Defence
Vic Labor try to shoot the anti-corruption messenger.
Fake Accounts Being Used To Acquire Data
“Sally Jade Jones”, “Caoimhin B Morcant” and “Charles Gray” are fake Facebook accounts being used by a far-left activist to acquire data on thousands of political opponents.
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Damned if We Do... Or Don’t
Some men have learned. They have done the work of unlearning the old rules: man up, harden up, don’t be soft. But some men are still learning. Not because they don’t feel deeply, but because they were taught to lock it down, praised for being tough and rewarded for being silent.
This Could Be a Trap
The law makes it clear: parliament could abolish the Māori seats tomorrow with a simple majority – no referendum needed, no special entrenchment – yet a politically convenient referendum is being offered instead.
On Sending Them Home
Transforming the revenge fantasies of anti-immigrant populists into enforceable public policy will not be easy.
This Is Just Bull
You’re much better off visualising how you’re going to get there. But then that would mean actual work.