by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2019 | Economics, Education, Election, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
… To Love and Hate Allow me to offer a campaign platform: A nationalized health care system, funded and managed at the state/local level, with private health insurance purchaseable by those who want it. A transition to a privatized, defined-contribution Social...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 23, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
My recent post about Trump’s tweet aimed at the four freshmen congresswomen now dubbed ‘the squad’ began as a musing on the nature of equality and racism in our society today. As J.R.R. Tolkien commented, the “tale grew in the telling,”...
by Karl Wright | Jul 22, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
I was given a very informative assignment this weekend: specifically, reading up on the newest definition of racism that is popular in left-wing circles. You may be familiar with the previous definition of racism, which is often abbreviated as “racism =...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 22, 2019 | Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Q: What do our border emergencies and the readiness of our military have in common? A: The Firemen First Principal. This refers to the government’s way of closing down its vital functions before they look to strip out waste or alter failed policies. Once...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 19, 2019 | Politics
I’ve spent far too much of my life dealing with the headaches of owning a car in New York City (and, to a lesser extent, its suburbs). As if the near-eternal traffic isn’t enough, parking is itself a giant time-suck for too many of us. The neighborhood...
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