by Karl Wright | Mar 12, 2017 | Health
EDITOR’S NOTE: We have our quibbles with a couple of the author’s points, but we all benefit from the robust exchanges that such quibbles prompt. The appearance of a serious Obamacare repeal/replace bill, and the ensuing discussions, have once again led me...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Mar 12, 2017 | Culture
The law has to live in functionality for it to live in flesh and blood. History knows that most ideas of governance and law are simply not livable. Consider the Constitution of the Soviet Union. Most modern Americans would call it enlightened. What happened? There...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 8, 2017 | Guns
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. “If not for the NRA, we’d have sensible gun regulation!” Some anti-gun arguments are just empty platitudes, ignorant of law and history...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 6, 2017 | Economics, Politics
President Trump recently proposed substantial cuts to the EPA’s budget of $2 billion, or about 24% of its operating budget. This would reduce its workforce from 15,000 to 12,000 and, obviously, mean that a number of programs and initiatives will end. Cue the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 5, 2017 | Economics, Politics
A common trope in literature and pop culture informs us that nothing good comes without a price or consequences. Most of us know that you cannot make a wish with a genie or a deal with the Devil that isn’t inevitably going to work against you. Movies and...
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