by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 4, 2018 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
You shouldn’t get to run the country. There is much ballyhoo over the rise of the Democratic Socialists, a rise whose epicenter was the surprise primary upset of ten-term Democratic Congressman Joe Crowley by young upstart Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. While...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 28, 2018 | Culture, Opinion
Not content with demanding racial quotas in education and geography, the Left took another giant step backward in its supposed advocacy for equality. California recently passed a law requiring women on corporate boards. Step backward, you might ask? Indeed. Hereafter,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 26, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
In some of the (many) arguments about socialism in which I’ve engaged, its defenders point at the successes of communes and kibbutzes as “proof” that socialism can work and as a refutation to my assertion that it is always doomed to fail. There are...
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 Peter Venetoklis | Nov 16, 2018 | Economics, Politics, Taxation
Imagine that you believe society’s needs are best funded via the old Marxism “From each according to his ability…” Imagine that doctrine tells you to put the heaviest taxes on the wealthiest, most capable, and most affluent (while taxing...
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