(Note: many links below are to progressive websites. I'm also sending a modified version of this piece to a private group. Since most of them lean progressive, I wanted sources that they couldn't easily dismiss. I'll try to remember to TW you). One of the things that...
A Few Thoughts on Conspiracy Skeptics
It’s a conspiracy! K-O-N-…spiracy!
We’re Coming to Get You
NOTE: (This article was supposed to have been written in September with a request to TPTB to publish on September 26. But, well, life, etc. Thus, almost two months later, I submit this memory of one of the most emotional days in Australian sport). At 5:22pm Eastern...
Random Thoughts
H/T: The Hyperbole & Tom Sowell A few random thoughts on subjects that aren't big enough to become an article on their own. Music: when I was a kid, my parents owned some Seekers records (naturally for an Australian family at that time). On one of those was a...
Should the State Fix the State’s Mistakes? (Part II)
For a few Zimbabwean dollars more – Raven Nation walks us through how commie redistributionist bullshit can fuck up a perfectly good country.
Should the State Fix the State’s Mistakes? (Part I)
For a fistful of Zimbabwean dollars, Raven Nation takes a dive into the history of Southern Africa.
“Wherever you are, help is on the way”
The Outback The Australian outback has been romanticized by authors and film makers. Its reality is hard work, aridness, and casual danger. But perhaps the most defining characteristic is distance. Although there is no agreed upon definition of the perimeter of the...
From Hobart to Geeveston
Antipodes…travel, therein.
Profiles in Toxic Masculinity (franchise edition*) – Charles H. Upham
Kiwi badass. Just read, you will see.
Protestants and Pacifism in the Early Modern World: Part II
One of the cornerstones of libertarianism—the non-aggression principle—can be explained as a refusal to engage in offensive violence while retaining the right to resist personal threats vigorously, even to the point of using lethal force.
Protestants and Pacifism in the Early Modern World
This is not a topic I would have naturally written about, but SP made a comment that got me thinking…
“A Man’s House is His Castle”: James Otis & the Fourth Amendment
In February, 1761, in a Boston courtroom, what should have been a fairly dry, administrative procedure became the foundation of one of Americans’ most prized rights.