by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 7, 2015 | Economics
I was a small business owner, the very sort of person that both the Right and the Left claim is the driver of job growth, and claim to support and believe in. I ran a successful restaurant for two decades, a New York City-style 24 hour diner that my father and his...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 5, 2015 | Politics
In the illegal road race classic The Gumball Rally, Franco, the race car driver portrayed by Raul Julia, told his boss and co-driver “And now, my friend, the first rule of Italian driving, (pauses to rip the rear view mirror off the windshield and throw it...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 1, 2015 | Culture, Economics
Just under a decade ago, an Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral and sent a thousand pound spacecraft name New Horizons on a very, very, VERY long journey. With a little help from Jupiter’s gravity, New Horizons arrived at the distant ex-planet Pluto...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 28, 2015 | Culture, Taxation
Eric Schneiderman, New York State’s Attorney General, recently made headlines by announcing that he considered the services provided by fantasy sport sites such as Draft Kings and FanDuel to be games of chance rather than skill and therefore illegal under state...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 11, 2015 | Culture, Drug Policy
The libertarian magazine Reason recently posted a piece that discusses the ethics of prohibiting college students from taking “smart drugs.” Certain drugs (Adderall is one that’s mentioned) can improve mental acuity and performance, and some scolds,...
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