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 27, 2019 | Politics
One of my best friends keeps lists. Not lists of to-do things, like one might imagine (although it’s safe to assume he has those as well), but inventory lists, including one that tallies every movie he’s ever seen. I do such lists, and they include musical...
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 25, 2019 | Election, Politics
Money and politics. They go together like cheese and crackers, chips and salsa, coffee and donuts, pencil and paper, peanut butter and jelly (or bananas if you’re Elvis), milk and cookies, and dogs and ponies. More so, in fact. Money in politics is speech. It is...
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 Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 23, 2019 | Culture, Drug Policy, Politics, Taxation
Prevalent in the Presidential debates was publicity over “The Talk” candidate Bill De Blasio’s had to have with his son Dante. The Mayor needed to warn his mixed-race, African-looking son of the dangers of an encounter with his own NYPD. Evidently,...
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