by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 7, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Politics
Environmental it-girl Greta Thunberg found herself stuck in Chile with nothing to do, after the nation cancelled its plans to host the 2019 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aka COP25. The reason for the cancellation should give pause to Greta and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 5, 2019 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Elizabeth Warren has many plans. Chief among them is her plan to nationalize one-seventh of America’s economy, by eliminating private health insurance in favor of what she calls “Medicare for All.” According to her, she’ll manage this by taxing...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 30, 2019 | Economics, Opinion, Politics
There is a range of estimates on what we’ve spent on the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Seven trillion dollars is a ballpark figure (what’s a trifling trillion or two nowadays?). By the time all the veterans get the care they are due, we might add as much as...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 28, 2019 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Four years ago, I lamented the coercive homogenization of how we think that was born of the morphing of “political correctness” into “propaganda compliance.” Part of that lament was the emergence of an internecine battle between feminists and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 26, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
I recently finished binge-watching Red Oaks, a very pleasant comedy set in and around a New Jersey country club in the mid-late 1980s. Those of a certain age will remember that was the era of the emergence of Japanese business as a global powerhouse, and of American...
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