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,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 13, 2019 | Culture, Election, Environment, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Bill De Blasio, mayor of New York for another two and a half years, then (thankfully) term-limited into the history books and (hopefully) ignominious obscurity, is continuing his (farcical) quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination by engaging in rhetoric...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 26, 2019 | Culture, Politics, Taxation
An article that crossed my social media feed this morning highlighted (for me) a particularly insidious idiom that’s become popular among some in the culture-politics scrum. The article, a “come to Jesus” exposition of a feminist writer’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 13, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Taxation
MacKenzie Bezos, now-ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, made headlines when she got $36 billion as her divorce settlement, and then promptly made more headlines when she joined the Giving Pledge, an initiative whereby the world’s wealthiest promise to give a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 4, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Taxation
Many people loooove to scold other people, and many politicians loooove to hop on bandwagons that involve scolding. And, when ideas about controlling scoldable behavior arise, they, like lies, run twice around the world before corresponding truths even get out of the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 3, 2019 | Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Other People’s Money (OPM) is a wonderful thing, especially when those Other People have a lot of it and you have a lot of ideas as to how it should be spent. Progressive economics, distilled down to its essence, brings us to that simple conclusion. One problem...
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