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Recent Posts:

  • The Return of the Entrepreneur-Statesman
  • Trump’s Path Back: How Shifting Politics and Powerful Voices Reshaped the Election
  • Electoral College Critics: Ready to Reconsider Your Favorite Leaders?
  • Wartime heroine was treasured
  • Isolationist policies start to catch NZ up
  • Loving Uncle Sam
  • More evidence of child COVID lockdown harm
  • Raising happier kids
  • Aussie kids’ increased drowning risk—another consequence of COVID lockdowns
  • What do we look back on in life?
  • UK spike in non-COVID deaths a sign of things to come in other countries that locked down hard?
  • Why CEOs who believe in free markets must defend them
  • The case for COVID-19 vaccines for healthy kids falls apart
  • Articles that caught my eye – February 2022
  • The pandemic ‘fear porn’ must stop
  • Thoughts on ‘Whatever happened to American conservatism?’
  • What grocery store cartel?
  • Coronavirus contemplations III
  • Like most parents, we won’t be giving our kids the COVID vaccine right away
  • Women more empowered to pursue career aspirations in developed countries
  • Email from Roger Kerr to Sir Douglas Myers, June 2011
  • Crisis in the Dallas Diocese
  • The perils of COVID-zero—how policymakers should manage endemic COVID-19
  • No, children with COVID-19 aren’t filling up Texas intensive care units
  • Coronavirus contemplations II
  • Remembering Joyce
  • Virtual schooling led to dramatic learning loss
  • Unleashing New Zealand’s Potential and Suppressing Washington State’s—Lessons for Texas
  • US healthcare system comes to aid of another Kiwi
  • What cut-throat free market?
  • When CEOs don’t stand up for free markets
  • New Zealand had no choice but to lock down
  • Enlightened thinking in Texas
  • The Private Sector’s COVID-Era Triumph
  • Podcasts for the pandemic
  • Pandemic learning gaps make clear the need for public school reform
  • When voters don’t keep extremism in check
  • Roger Kerr – Nomination for a New Zealand Royal Honour
  • Paul Baines: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
  • Sir Paul Callaghan: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
  • Nick Calavrias: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
  • Sir Roderick Deane: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
  • Rodney Hide: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
  • Murray Horn: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
  • Stephen Jennings: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
  • Roger Partridge: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
  • Graham Scott: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
  • Sir Ralph Norris: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
  • Sir William Birch: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
  • Don’t let COVID-19 dominate your life
  • New England Journal of Medicine embarrasses itself
  • Honoring traditions and being part of the solution post-RBG
  • Farewell Seattle
  • Reopen schools for the sake of our children
  • Seattle exemplifies the fast-growing private-public school pandemic gap
  • Reflections on a Life Well Lived—Tribute to Sir Ron Trotter
  • Free to create, labs out-innovate each other
  • Coronavirus contemplations
  • Low income and least skilled workers come out ahead
  • How business leaders helped save New Zealand from socialism—Lessons for Washington State
  • RIP Lime bikes—another case study in Seattle City Council regulatory incompetence
  • Assorted links – August 2019
  • Big little climate lies
  • The Incredible Whiteness of Washington State’s ‘Progressive’ Policies
  • A response to a hatchet job in Crosscut
  • Waitstaff 1: Bosses 0–thanks free market
  • Five years of ‘The Kerrant’
  • Moving beyond Kavanaugh
  • Feel-Good Bans on Straws and Plastic Bags Don’t Help the Ocean
  • Socialism’s apologists ignore Venezuela’s human tragedy
  • Elizabeth Warren’s financial illiteracy
  • Seattle’s homeless contradictions
  • Seattle’s sickening rape that could have been prevented
  • Gun control that works requires smaller government
  • Pumping up freedoms in Oregon – redux
  • Capturing your kids’ moments from behind
  • If not economic growth, then what?
  • New Seattle Mayor and her opponent opt their kids out of public school
  • Politics and the science of motherhood
  • Email from Roger Kerr to Sir Douglas Myers on receipt of 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honour
  • Gratitude for and memories of Dad
  • Reflections on Dad: Roger Lawrence Kerr CNZM, 1945 – 2011
  • Roger’s final debrief
  • The Seattle income tax: Why I’m taking a stand
  • Kid classics that would not be released today
  • New Zealand’s reforms and lessons for Washington
  • Charlie Gard and the need for limited government
  • US healthcare problems—universal healthcare is not the solution
  • National Geographic chooses spin over science
  • Microsoft heralded as an innovator – it always has been
  • The potential of partnerships to save our community centers
  • The other passion of Sir Douglas Myers – public policy
  • Goodbye Seattle Public Schools
  • Transgender policy – another Democratic loss
  • Trump and our divided country
  • Obama: The Great Disappointment
  • Open letter to the 1%
  • Trump v. Obama, or why Clinton campaign supports Citizens United
  • 40 best books for toddlers, preschoolers (and their parents)
  • The Electoral College and the future of the Democratic Party

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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