by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 28, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
I did a bit of streaming service surfing last weekend, searching for a new television show to watch. I typically gravitate to original content by the streamers and some of the more “quality” cable channels, having found that the broadcast networks’...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 26, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
“We probably will have a wealth tax,” said Nancy Pelosi on Sunday. The Democrats are in a mad scramble to cobble together a Frankenstein’s-monster tax-and-spend bill they’ve laughably labeled “Build Back Better.” They are reaping...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 23, 2021 | Culture, Education, Environment, Opinion, Politics
We are in the midst of a massive cultural awareness of race and racism that future historians might define as an “awakening” (or Marxists as an “expansion of consciousness”). In and of itself, this is not a bad thing. I have frank conversations...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 22, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Education, Environment, Opinion, Politics
The Art Institute of Chicago recently announced an end to its 60 years-running docent program. 122 volunteers, averaging more than 15 years experience, who gave “tours to millions, including more than 100,000 schoolchildren each year, many from the city’s mostly...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 8, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Back in 1969, bureaucrats testified to Congress that 155 high earners had managed to work their tax returns to where they paid no income tax… in one specific year. Anyone who understands the vagaries of business investing, capital gains and losses, tax loss...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 27, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Consider the bipolar nature of our society today. Modern society, thanks to the new tool that is social media, has created an enormous reward system for people who manage to stand above the crowd, who get themselves noticed, who are exceptional enough to attract...
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