by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 30, 2021 | Economics, Politics, Taxation
America has a free rider problem. Except when she doesn’t. Except when she does. Except when she doesn’t. Depending on who you talk to, progressive taxation combined with various forms of welfare are either a justified “redistribution” of...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Mar 29, 2021 | Economics, Health, Politics
Civics 101 taught me that a “Taking” of property by the government requires compensation. This is a continuation of an English precedent going back centuries, so it’s not surprising that a court overturned, as a Taking, the eviction moratorium, in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 25, 2021 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
Let us contemplate, as the Biden administration rushes to cripple the American economy with brute-force carbon reduction measures as part of its “green”/global warming agenda, that nothing America does will make one whit’s worth of difference to...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Mar 20, 2021 | Health, Politics
As regular readers know, I have worked as a paramedic in New York City for over 25 years. Covid was the hardest challenge of my career, by far. It was the challenge of the century to our healthcare system (and our society). Controversy rages around Governor...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 20, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Information regarding the Atlanta massage parlor shooter continues to issue forth, and as the picture resolves more finely, we will get a better sense of why he murdered all those people. The earliest reporting (not reports, reporting, as in pundits interlacing their...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 19, 2021 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Students of history know that the original “cancel culture” was the Soviet Union in the 1930s, when Stalin and his apparatchiks sent millions to forced labor camps, often based on nothing more than suspicion of unfavored political views (and often not even...
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