by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 7, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Opinion
History is replete with broad ripples caused by a single act by a single person. Gavrilo Princip, Lee Harvey Oswald, Rosa Parks, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, an unknown man in Tiananmen Square, Thich Quang Duc, John Wilkes Booth, and countless others changed world...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 29, 2017 | Economics, Politics, Taxation
If I were to tell you that the loudest deficit hawks of today are Democrats, you’d probably snort your coffee. Yet that’s the bizarro-world reversal of talking points that has ensued from the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Yes, it remains that a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 26, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The latest entry in the Star Wars franchise has closed out its second week of release, and some media outlets are engaging in gleeful schadenfreude over the precipitous drop in box office receipts from Week 1 to Week 2. Two weeks in, the overall numbers are strong,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 21, 2017 | Economics, Politics, Taxation
Much fuss has been made over the amount of cash and assets some of America’s biggest companies have stashed away off-shore, estimated by some at more a trillion dollars. Under current tax law, the government considers all that taxable at the 35% corporate rate,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 20, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Comedian Janeane Garofalo, who has firmly established herself as a full-blown Progressive in both her act and her public political statements, exemplifies the shocking lack of self-awareness of people who deride America’s history for its failings. Consider the...
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