by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 29, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Health, Politics, Taxation
A long-running hallmark of progressive politics is urban planning – the idea that the Best-and-Brightest (TM) should organize our physical lives in a fashion that advances certain goals. Those goals are purported to include efficiency, environmental stewardship,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 6, 2020 | Opinion, Politics, Taxation
One of the great truths of life is that politicians have virtually no shame, no matter how much they morally preen and scold others. I was reminded of this in reading that NY Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Thomas Suozzi are pushing to include a removal of the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2020 | Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
An interesting screed passed through my social media today. Interesting, not in a “hm, that makes good points” way, but in a “blindered by ideology” way. The author, Heather Cox Richardson, is a professor of history at Boston College, and a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 4, 2020 | Immigration, Politics, Taxation
When was the last time you read the Declaration of Independence? The whole thing, not just the second paragraph? It’s not long – 1334 words. Should take you 5 minutes or so. 5 minutes wee spent, on the 244th anniversary of its ratification. Feel free to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 2, 2020 | Economics, Election, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Were I tasked with offering one lesson about politics, whether it be to a group of wide-eyed high school sophomores, an over-educated class of grad students, or a conglomerated mass of voters from all over the political spectrum, it would be this: It’s always...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 28, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
I caught a chunklet of an Internet conversation the other day, wherein a couple obviously left-leaning (and intersectional) commenters offered a perfunctory dismissal of Thomas Sowell (and Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson, because Black Non-Liberals are all the same,...
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