by Peter Venetoklis | May 26, 2019 | Politics
The title of this essay, attributed to both George Orwell and a reformed Bolshevik writer named Panait Istrati, addresses the socialist-apologists’ assertion that, in order to make an omelet, you have break a few eggs. Thus were Stalin’s brutalities...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 24, 2019 | Economics, Politics
We are well into the second year of Trump’s trade war, which has produced a volatile but flat stock market (The S&P 500 index sits, at this moment at 2856, almost precisely its 2873 value of January 28, 2018, just before this trade war began), and which...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 23, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Immigration, Politics
Yes, it’s AOC time again. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, freshman congresswoman, political It-girl, and self-made voice of the Progressive Left and the Democratic Socialists, has offered up yet another interesting piece of blather. The headline, which reads...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | May 19, 2019 | Politics
Political anti-semitism is on the rise across the West’s Left. Britain’s Labor party seemingly embraces it, France’s is notoriously virulent and persistent, and now the pathogen is in the USA. Minnesota’s Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has made a...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 8, 2019 | Drug Policy, Economics, Education, Health, Opinion, Politics
… and I’m here to help. Ronald Reagan famously declared these the most terrifying words in the English language. His quip embodied his form of conservatism, and ably summarized the repeated (and, as most libertarians will tell you, inevitable) failures of...
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