by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 24, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
There was a time, not that long ago, where people could hear or read an opinion they disagreed with and not feel the urge to hurl insults or demand that someone silence the sharer of that nonconforming opinion. There was a time, not that long ago, where Other...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Sep 18, 2017 | Culture, Drug Policy, Politics
To study the patterns of media umbranoshes and outrages, it seems the more one knows the less one understands. Try to make sense of rioting in the streets over the totally justified actions of the Police in the Michael Brown shooting, versus the comparative community...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 18, 2017 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Proving that there’s no idea so terrible that a politician cannot make it worse, today’s New York Post reports a nasty little nugget about BernieCare, Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposal to expand the government’s Medicare program to cover...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 15, 2017 | Culture, Economics, Politics
A core premise of capitalism and free markets is that people voluntarily enter into exchanges and interactions with each other. Each does so because he believes there’s a benefit to be gained from that exchange or interaction. Thus, the benefit is mutual. It is...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 10, 2017 | Economics
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and ahead of the likely devastation of Hurricane Irma, social media is awash in expressions of outrage over what is commonly labeled as “price gouging.” For the few unaware of the term, price gouging is a (derogatory) term...
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