by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Sep 12, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Opinion
The Government Hand That Feeds It is well enough known that the Nazis innovated the modern Olympic iconography: the torch ceremony, the photogenic mass fandom in the monumental stadiums braying for reflected national glory. If they discovered what looks good to the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 10, 2016 | Culture, Election, Politics
Stories about people’s Trump signs and placards being stolen have become so common that only the ones with “bonus” features are bothering to register in the zeitgeist nowadays. One man electrified his signs after seven were stolen and after video...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 9, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Taxation
News that the Obama Administration was implementing some rule changes in order to increase revenue from estate taxes reminded me of an old quote: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 8, 2016 | Economics, Health, Politics
The attached graphic crossed my browser screen today. As you can see, it’s an OMG BIG PHARMA IS EVIL graphic from the Bernie Sanders camp. It asserts that a particular drug is four times more expensive in America than it is in three nations that have socialized...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 4, 2016 | Opinion, Politics
A wonderful quote appeared in my newsfeed the other morning: Progress cannot be plotted and blueprinted in advance; that is why it is progress. It reminded me of an anecdote from my engineering days. In an all-hands meeting regarding the technology project I was...
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