by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 6, 2014 | Culture, Taxation
One of my favorite things about the movie Excalibur, an absolutely gorgeous telling of the King Arthur legend by John Boorman, is the utterly unapologetic bombast with which the actors deliver their lines. In an early scene, a young Arthur, squiring for his brother at...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 2, 2014 | Culture, Health, Politics
Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City and self-appointed nanny of its more irresponsible residents, famously failed to impose a limit on the serving size of sugary beverages that restaurants and convenience stores could offer. He succeeded, however, in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 1, 2014 | Culture, Economics, Politics
I recently happened across a video clip of Milton Friedman schooling a young and idealistic Stanford University student on the topic of poverty. Although the student’s question was posed 35 years ago, if we change the shirt and the hairstyle (and possibly dumb...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 24, 2014 | Economics, Politics
Advanced societies, we are told, provide for their weakest members. Liberals proudly espouse this principle via the concept of the “social safety net.” The safety net, whose first roots in the USA stretch back to the beginning of the 20th century, really...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 22, 2014 | Culture, Environment
A recent edition of the NY Post had an opinion piece wherein the author took to task some scolds who had issues with the message of the movie Interstellar. The basic plot of the movie (I haven’t seen it) is that the Earth is dying and astronauts are sent out to...
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