by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 19, 2018 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
This week, President Trump banned bump stocks, devices used to enable a semi-automatic rifle such as an AR-15 to simulate full-automatic operation. Not Congress. Not a passel of anti-gun Democrats and/or a cohort of squishy Republicans. President Trump, who has long...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 18, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Politics, Taxation
Trump’s tax cuts were widely praised by his supporters, and widely panned by the Left. No surprise in either case. The tax cuts were also panned by another, less obvious group: conservative deficit hawks. Many in this crowd purport to be the “true”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 16, 2018 | Environment, Opinion
Over in Poland, a passel of the world’s elite have gathered for the 24th annual Conference of Parties (COP24), to discuss climate change and hammer out an agreement on carbon emission tracking and mitigation. The word coming out of Poland is that the situation...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 14, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
The Supreme Court, earlier this week, announced its docket of upcoming cases. Among those to which it granted certiorari is Kisor v Wilkie, a “boring” case that could have massive implications for the administrative state. The case, about a Marine seeking...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 10, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Politics
Forty years ago, a Democrat did an interesting thing. On October 14, 1978, then-president Jimmy Carter signed a bill that, among other things, deregulated the beer industry by legalizing home-brewing. At the time, there were 44 breweries in the country. Old Milwaukee,...
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