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Open Thread – Weekend 17 Dec 2022
The Luncheon, Claude Monet, 1873
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Arizona Election Contest
Over the weekend, lawyers for Kerri Lake filed a lawsuit against Katie Hobbs, both as contestee and in her capacity f Secretary of State, and various election officials of Maricopa County, re the gubernatorial election in Arizona this past mid-term election. You can find the lawsuit filed here. The vote margin at present is 17,117…
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Open Thread – Tue 13 Dec 2022
The Census at Bethlehem, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566
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Peace-Mongering, Ukraine style
News Reports and Analysis Daily Mail, 30th November, 2021 The Daily Mail reported that three gatherings of some Downing Street staff had taken place during November and December of 2020. This was the lifting of the lid on the cesspool of cynicism that characterised the political response to Covid-19 all over the Western world, with…
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Open Thread – Weekend 10 Dec 2022
The Pont de Arts and the Institut de France, August Renoir, 1867
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Wokey Women
Being Christmas, this is the time of year I get to attend work lunches at fancy Sydney restaurants. Yesterday, I attended another such lunch, it was my third in a week, about twenty of us went to a particularly good CBD restaurant. I don’t enjoy these lunches. Why? Well, I like to keep my social…
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Open Thread – Tue 6 Dec 2020
Mary and Joseph on the Way to Bethlehem, Hugo van der Goes, 1475
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A new Winslow Boy case
The Brittany Higgins sexual assault case – now aborted – has left in legal limbo the accused, Bruce Lehrmann. This is unacceptable in a country that has the common law doctrine of innocent until proven guilty at the heart of its justice system. Lehrmann’s current difficulties remind me of another case. Though of very different…
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Callow Pipedreams ahead? Already here
I see that Jacinda Ardern is intent on lowering the voting age to sixteen in New Zealand. It’s a developing trend. Let’s face it, nobody remotely believes that the voting age will be restored to twenty-one from where it should never have been lowered. All the impetus, from the left and from the greenies, is…
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Roundup 4 Dec
Roundup of Partners and Fellow-Travellers Drop in and see what they are up to! IPA Climate and energy program CIS The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre Mannkal Economics Education Foundation Advance Australia Taxpayers Alliance Australian Institute for Progress Save these dates 15 December at 6.0 Sydney time. Menzies Research Institute webinar forum for representatives of rural communities…