by Karl Wright | Mar 6, 2017 | Politics
Enlightened rationality has had a good run — some three hundred and fifty years, by my count. But all good things must come to an end, apparently. Let’s all lift a glass to the end of Reason. Perhaps you believe I’m premature in heralding...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 6, 2017 | Economics, Politics
President Trump recently proposed substantial cuts to the EPA’s budget of $2 billion, or about 24% of its operating budget. This would reduce its workforce from 15,000 to 12,000 and, obviously, mean that a number of programs and initiatives will end. Cue the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 5, 2017 | Economics, Politics
A common trope in literature and pop culture informs us that nothing good comes without a price or consequences. Most of us know that you cannot make a wish with a genie or a deal with the Devil that isn’t inevitably going to work against you. Movies and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 1, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Maintaining my not-so-grand tradition of reading instead of listening, I chose not to watch Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress last night. Instead, I read the transcript, so that I could process the content without the distractions of rhetorical...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 28, 2017 | Economics, Politics
Every so often, we are treated to a news story about horrific inefficiency, waste and fraud in government spending. While jokes about $400 hammers and $600 toilet seats have been around so long that we write them off as trivialities, the aggregate numbers are so...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 27, 2017 | Politics
“Primum nil nocere.” This is the cardinal rule of medicine, and part of the Hippocratic oath sworn to by clinicians since before the time of Christ: “First do no harm.” Carl Sagan had a great corollary: “Extraordinary claims require...
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