by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 24, 2014 | Culture, Politics
A recent New York Post article about how New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had a flight to Puerto Rico that he was booked on delayed by his security team so he wouldn’t miss it. The article notes that de Blasio is “habitually tardy,” and there have...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 22, 2014 | Culture, Politics
This past weekend, two NY City police officers, one asian and one latino, were murdered in what appears to be a premeditated and unprovoked act of payback for the deaths of two black men in two unrelated incidents in two different cities. The firestorm of tension,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 20, 2014 | Culture, Politics
The recent release of a report on the CIA’s interrogation of suspected terrorists has brought quite a spectacle to the political blogosphere. The report, its obvious political purpose notwithstanding, has served a useful unintended purpose: it has exposed to the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 6, 2014 | Culture, Taxation
One of my favorite things about the movie Excalibur, an absolutely gorgeous telling of the King Arthur legend by John Boorman, is the utterly unapologetic bombast with which the actors deliver their lines. In an early scene, a young Arthur, squiring for his brother at...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 2, 2014 | Culture, Health, Politics
Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City and self-appointed nanny of its more irresponsible residents, famously failed to impose a limit on the serving size of sugary beverages that restaurants and convenience stores could offer. He succeeded, however, in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 1, 2014 | Culture, Economics, Politics
I recently happened across a video clip of Milton Friedman schooling a young and idealistic Stanford University student on the topic of poverty. Although the student’s question was posed 35 years ago, if we change the shirt and the hairstyle (and possibly dumb...
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