by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 8, 2014 | Culture, Health
Hot on the heels of a CBO report that predicts people will be incentivized not to work because of Obamacare’s subsidies (a report that gets the Captain Obvious award, more on that in a moment) comes some truly stupendous sophistry from the administration and its...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 2, 2014 | Culture, Health
Over the past couple decades, there has been a significant, some might say startling, rise in the rate of diagnosis of autism in children. Many theories have sought to explain this phenomenon, much study has been devoted to the issue, yet an answer still eludes us....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 28, 2014 | Economics
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the minimum wage is being groomed as a hot-button election year issue. Setting aside the destructiveness of minimum wage increases to job creation, the harm it does to the poor and unskilled, and the overall notion that the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 21, 2014 | Culture, Politics
Pick a “social good” government initiative at random. Legislation and regulation directed at tobacco, at alcohol, at narcotics or psychotropics, at sugar, at trans-fats, at sodium, at obesity, at poverty – take your choice. Got one? Good. First,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 20, 2014 | Politics
Libertarianism is often dismissed, by both the Left and the Right, as a playground for idealists who are detached from reality and a philosophy whose ideas look great on paper but would never work in the real world. Questions lobbed at libertarians often take the form...
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