I suppose that many / most of you know examples of sentences by judges that have a political bias. The most common example is judges ruling about climate change, which is - by nature - a global rather than a national event. Supreme Courts appear to recognise such a political - and non-scientific - bias. Donald Trump changed the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court...
Introduction LO: This Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article (see below) was written before the recent decision of the liberal-left Canadian Prime Minister to resign. His resignation is further evidence of the validity of this WSJ article. In my view, the pendulum in Politics used to be between conservatives (“Right”) and Labour (“Left”) until about 1980. Growing wealth...
An American expert at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies claims that voting by "anti-democratic young generations" is a reason for Trump's 2024 victory. See his recent comment on Dutch BNR Newsradio. In my view, "anti-democratic young voters" is a rather silly and even a contradicting concept. As a child (1960), my parents once explained that it was common that...
"Ignorance is bliss", according to an 18th-century poem by Thomas Gray. Listening to ignorance can be quite funny, unlike arrogance. Hence, I wonder if the ignorance of the conservative-right has beaten the arrogance of the liberal-left on November 5. To some extent, the same is happening in Europe. The arrogance of the liberal-left manifests itself in topics like...
Het oude spreekwoord, angst is een slechte raadgever, zijn we kennelijk al lang vergeten. In de HJ Schoo-lezing van 2024 sprak Pieter Omtzigt (NSC) over het gevaar van onderbevolking. Diverse vrouwelijke columnisten schreven cynische reacties over zijn gewenste extra baby’s. In de jaren 70 waarschuwde de Club van Rome in haar rapport De grenzen aan de groei (1972)...
Introductie LO: Ik heb relatief vaak geschreven over de Neanderthal en heb nooit geloofd dat ze primitieve holbewoners waren. De reden is eigenlijk vrij simpel: het overleven van IJstijden vergt intelligentie. Het artikel stelt dat "de Neanderthalers bijna 300.000 jaar in Europa geleefd". Andere artikelen stellen dat die periode mogelijk veel langer was: van circa...
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