New Catallaxy

  • Open Thread – Weekend 17 June 2023

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #75

    Tourists on the menu. The first time watching of a favourite film can be a particularly memorable event, and I will always recall my first viewing of Jaws when the family went to see it way back in the summer of 1976. It would have to rank as one of my top five most purely…

  • Barnes on the federal Trump indictments

    Excellent overview of the constitutional issues raised by the recent federal indictments againt Trump, the leading challenger in the 2024 Presidential election. It all appears to hang on Article II powers conferred on every President, including classified material.

  • Open Thread – Tues 13 June 2023

  • The King Alfred the Great Awards

    These awards recall the memory of the warrior/educator/administrator and ruler Alfred, generally acknowledged as “the Great” (849-899) who expelled Danes from Wessex and eventually from England. He used to be known to every primary school child, if only for the legend that he went to sleep in a humble cottage while he was on the…

  • Guest Post: Muddy – Who Wrote That? Round 2

    Nothing except my faith in humanity has changed since the first round. To participate, nominate a Cat or Kitteh as the author of a specific quote. i.e. ‘48, Muddy.’ You can include the number and the quote itself if you wish, or just the number. All quotes have been sourced from an Open Thread. After…

  • Roundup June 12

    Our fellow travellers at work  The Energy Realists    Vagabond Jo Nova    The Monarchists Quadrant The Free Press Bettina Arndt Menzies IPA      The Sydney Institute Mannkal CIS   Taxpayers   Alexandra Marshall `   Australian Inst for Progress The Energy Realists (again). Check out the briefing notes that were sent to 800 state and federal reps and over a hundred journalists…

  • TGA in bed with Big Pharma

    How convenient

  • The ABC does not exist in a vacuum

    Gerard Henderson regularly and rightly criticises the ABC. A “staff collective” he calls it, which has not one single conservative commentator presenting a prominent show. I can’t speak first hand these days. I neither watch nor listen to the ABC. I suppose episodes of Four Corners, e.g., on the Trump “Russian collusion”, the 7.30 report…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 10 June 2023

  2. They potted the IRGC brigadier general who planned Oct 7 plus at least one senior Islamic Jihad guy (although that…

  3. Can these laser weapons run from renewables? You know set up a wind turbine nearby or a few solar panels.…

  5. The events in the US since 2019 or so have been beyond belief yet twerps like Abbott and Howard don’t…

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