by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Dec 16, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
A common theme, in looking at America’s galaxy of ills in the fall 2020, is that we are transitioning from a high trust society to one of low trust. Consider though, if we look at the last two decades, the problem is trust in the competency (and motives) of our...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 12, 2020 | Election, Politics
Politics of personality is the state of affairs America finds herself in more often than not, usually with problematic outcome. One of the greatest features of libertarianism, at least for me, is its elevation of ideas over idols, and while we do have our idols...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 11, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Remember 2005? It wasn’t that long ago. George W. Bush started his second term in office. The Iraq War entered its third year. Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became Iraq’s President, and pressed forward with a nuclear program...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Dec 9, 2020 | Economics, Politics
An economic notion, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), has been pulled from the dustbin of history to serve as the foundation for a set political doctrines and proposals currently being espoused by the progressives in America. The word “theory” is the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 8, 2020 | Economics, Politics, Taxation
We hear it all the time: Republicans support “tax breaks for the rich,” Democrats want the rich to pay “their fair share.” All this makes great fodder for those who don’t bother to inform themselves of the realities of our tax code, and...
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