by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 9, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion
A joke/lesson that’s been around since pre-Internet days posits two cows within different nations and/or economic systems. It’s both funny and instructive (as my calling it a joke/lesson implies, clearly), and one version can be found here. Among all sorts...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 8, 2019 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Prior to the last election, a conversation among friends included an “admission” by one, an executive in a large corporation, who noted that the past years under Obama had been good for him economically. His company had done well, he had made money and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 6, 2019 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
Those who pay attention to the climate wars know that the green movement has little use for nuclear power, despite its zero carbon emissions, its physically tiny footprint compared to wind and solar, its much lower environmental impact (the massive mining of rare...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 6, 2019 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
When it comes to individual rights, some, to paraphrase Orwell, are ‘more equal than others.’ In private life and free discourse, it should not alarm us all that much that a political writer prioritizes free speech, a churchgoer prioritizes religious...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 26, 2019 | Drug Policy, Economics
America’s opioid crisis has been uniquely lethal. A look around the world shows us how other nations have mitigated it much more successfully. For starters, we can say drug policy in America is killing people through failure to adapt, but there are two other...
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