by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 27, 2014 | Health
The history of government activity regarding health care and health insurance in the USA, if regarded from our 21st century perspective, can be summarized as law-problem-edict-problem-reform-problem-regulation-problem-fix-problem, going back decades. Yet the decades...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 27, 2014 | Opinion
Ask someone with statist leanings why we need government regulation, and some variation of these four words are very likely to escape his mouth. Perhaps not right away, perhaps only after some probing and questioning and challenging, but it’s almost a given that...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 22, 2014 | Culture
I saw an interesting quote today on the Internet. The quote, by Edward Abbey, read: Growth for Growth’s Sake is the Ideology of the Cancer Cell. It’s a strong aphorism, well constructed, aggressive and confrontational. It also immediately struck me as very...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 17, 2014 | Economics, Politics
As a brutal February rolls into a hopefully less brutal March, some of us start contemplating the spring planting season, with its promise of home-grown, straight-from-the-vine tomatoes. If you’ve never had a tomato straight off the vine, you’ve missed out...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 17, 2014 | Opinion
Back in the 1980s, the local blood bank, which would visit our company every quarter for donations, offered free cholesterol screenings for those who donated blood. We’d get a number and a reference note that indicated the cut-off between good and not-good was...
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