by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 26, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The creators of America’s system of governance recognized that different people want different things. They not only ensconced this philosophically in the “pursuit of happiness” understanding, but practically in their creation of a federalist system,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 25, 2018 | Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Talk to a present-day GOP die-hard about issues, and pay attention to the emotional level associated with each. Run the gamut of today’s big issues, and gauge the fervor behind each response. I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that, in most cases, you’ll...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 24, 2018 | Economics, Politics
A couple months ago, Amazon declared that it would pay all its employees at least $15 a hour. It cannot be coincidence that Amazon picked the very wage that progressives are demanding be set as a national minimum via legislation, so the Amazon move reeks of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 23, 2018 | Politics
Most of us know that the socialist and communist nations of the 20th century inflicted a horrible death toll on the human race (over a hundred million dead, by any informed reckoning, and possibly over 200 million by some counts). Most of us also know that the rise of...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 21, 2018 | Economics, Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
The midterm elections are over, and where the Trump phenomenon began as a radical overturning of our political status quo (“right diagnosis, wrong treatment,” I argued at the time), the traditional rules of American politics return: the incumbent...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 21, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
Hot on the heels of New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio blaming the weathermen and refusing to shoulder any responsibility for the city’s atrocious management of a relatively pedestrian 6″ snow storm last Thursday comes a similar not my fault abdication...
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