by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 31, 2019 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
The usual places have been buzzing over the latest “deadline” to save the planet, one that’s quite interesting in both its timing and its delayed dissemination. A BBC report quotes “Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder and now director emeritus...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 30, 2019 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Much (deserved) shade was thrown at some of the Democratic Presidential candidates’ plans to institute a “Medicare for All” system that outlawed private insurance plans. I expect that someone got in their ears and told them a – that the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 29, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Playwright, auteur, and late-in-life conservative convert David Mamet referred to socialism as the abdication of responsibility. The resurgence of socialism in the American political landscape, itself born of the “childing” of age-of-majority youth via...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 26, 2019 | Economics, Guns, Opinion, Politics
Two bits of regulatory news in New York City reminded me today of the tragedy of Icarus. The first, a gun rights case before the Supreme Court, has the city’s regulators and state’s lawmakers in a panic. The second, the recent massive expansion of the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2019 | Economics, Education, Election, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
… To Love and Hate Allow me to offer a campaign platform: A nationalized health care system, funded and managed at the state/local level, with private health insurance purchaseable by those who want it. A transition to a privatized, defined-contribution Social...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 23, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
My recent post about Trump’s tweet aimed at the four freshmen congresswomen now dubbed ‘the squad’ began as a musing on the nature of equality and racism in our society today. As J.R.R. Tolkien commented, the “tale grew in the telling,”...
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