New Catallaxy

  • Where’s the evidence that these vaxxines are actually safe?

    From Melbourne’s ‘freedom’ protest fever spreads across the country but I want you to notice this passage in particular. “No matter how much misinformation and propaganda you put out there, Victoria is going to win.” Dr Cumming has appeared regularly at the anti-government protests and has been promoting them online. She railed against the vaccination of…

  • When hope is lost, comes hope

    Hair-sniffing senile Joe Biden called him a white supremacist. Against the clear evidence of self-defence, a political trial was staged. The mainstream media in the US piled on: racism, white privilege, white supremacism; day after day, month after month, they lied and they lied. No black man would get away with this they whined; forgetting…

  • Dealing with self-serving socialist nonentities

    Two related stories about the phenomenal incompetence of the Andrews Government. First this: Victorian living standards fall for two consecutive years. Victorians’ living standards have fallen for two consecutive years, suffering the hardest hit in the country through the coronavirus recession, with signs it could take another year to get back to their pre-COVID levels. From…

  • Guest Post: mem – Are young women bearing the brunt of the vaccine mandates?

    Watching footage of the demonstrations against the vaccine mandates over the past few weeks, I was amazed at the number of young women participating. To my knowledge this is unprecedented. No wonder many women in their child-bearing years are tentative about getting the jab. There has been little evaluation as to the impact of the…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 20 Nov 2021

  • Weekday Reading #9

    An Expression of Contempt for the Electorate (Quadrant) Among the many consequences of the making of a pandemic order is that, at the Premier’s command, any individual in Victoria will be at risk of being detained, having his or her movements restricted, and being moved from place to place. The Premier will have power to…

  • Mater’s Musings #40: Pot calling the kettle…Black?

    Gee, this Facebook post didn’t age well.

  • Mater’s Mischief #1: Mmm…

  • Weekday Reading #8

    The Loss of the Ennobling Principle (The PostLiberal Order) MacIntyre’s excellent thesis is that we have turned the concept of dignity into something for which it was not built, and we’ve turned away from an objective account of justice which Cicero defined as “giving each his due.” The paradox is that we’ve lost both justice…

  • Weekday Reading #7

    How COVID Lockdowns Handed Global Warming Extremists The Tools To Crush Freedom (The Federalist) But there’s a major problem: While it might have felt like a return to normalcy, it wasn’t. We’re not going back to normal — at least not without a hard and vicious fight. Why not? Because the past two years have…

  3. Dan Andrews to head youth mental health service Former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has been appointed to chair youth mental…

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