April 2018 - William Gairdner

A Guaranteed Basic Income? A Proven Failure!

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Post published:April 26, 2018
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Welfare programs throughout the Western world have never been able to avoid the moral hazard that arises from the fact that when you keep giving people something for nothing, they stop trying to earn it for themselves. The classic examples…

My First Podcast Is Up Now

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:April 25, 2018
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Please go to “Podcasts” on the Home page of this website, and click the media-bar to hear my first ever Podcast. I hope it is clear, informative, and makes sense. I have done many hundreds of media interviews in my…

How Physician-Assisted Suicide Leads to “Involuntary-Euthanasia”

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:April 18, 2018
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Here is a particularly moving warning that laws allowing physician-assisted suicide, almost immediately lead to laws allowing “involuntary-euthanasia”: the State legalizing the killing of people who have never agreed they want to die – the old, the infirm, the mentally-disturbed,…

Our Post-Christian World

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Post published:April 16, 2018
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This is a reply to a member of our discussion group who is a professing Christian (we also have some humanists, atheists, a Muslim, and so on) and who despairs of the world he sees decaying around him: You have…

Background To Our Divided World

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:April 12, 2018
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What follows is drawn from the very first part of The Great Divide: Why Liberals And Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree (Encounter 2015), and is an attempt to contrast the way we are today, with how we began. Seems like…

The “Wage Gap” Between Men and Women Is Phony

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Post published:April 10, 2018
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It is simply astonishing to realize how very gullible Western publics are, and how dunned by “progressives” into falsely believing there is some kind of systemic plot afoot to pay women less than men. What follows is drawn from The…

The Rich Get Richer … And So Do The Poor!

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:April 9, 2018
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Here is a 5-minute video from PragerU on the best-kept secret of the Western world, which is the dramatic drop in world-wide poverty rates that has occurred over the last half-century. Generally speaking, if you want to know the doubling-rate…

How Ideology Perverts the Teaching of Law

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:April 5, 2018
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This article, by Professor Bruce Pardy of Queen’s University Law School, is a must read, as they say. In it, he clearly explains the difference between a School teaching the principles of the Law, and a School teaching the Law…

Darwin Was Wrong!

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:April 3, 2018
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I have just finished reading a wonderful biography of Charles Darwin by the illustrious British historian and biographer A.N, Wilson, entitled Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker (London: Harper Collins, 2017).The moment I saw the cover I was intrigued, because Wilson is…