by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 10, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Consider the word “liberal.” Nowadays, in America, calling one’s self a liberal conveys certain information with regard to political and social beliefs. Average folks in normal conversation will have a pretty consistent understanding of what the word...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 6, 2016 | Politics
Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York State, recently issued a decree that the State of New York will not do business with any entity that engages in boycotts of Israel and Israeli businesses. The BDS movement is an effort to apply economic pressure on Israel for that...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 30, 2016 | Culture, Drug Policy, Health
The nation is in the midst of an opioid painkiller epidemic. At least, that’s what we’re being told by a hyperventilating press and a passel of politicians. If you want to cut through the chaff to some facts, start with this article over at Reason and then...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 24, 2016 | Economics
The Ladder of Success. A ubiquitous metaphor, used to describe both the structure and the process of economic self-betterment, and the subject of countless political memes of both the progressive and conservative variety. Progressives argue that our land of...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 19, 2016 | Environment
Bjorn Lomborg, an environmentalist who is among those who suggest that there are more pressing issues in the world than AGW, was recently disinvited from speaking at an Australian university because some students made a bunch of noise. It exposes the group-think...
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