by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 20, 2016 | Election
Fans of professional sports understand momentum, the unquantifiable sense that a team has taken charge of a game. There are times when we can feel the beginning of a comeback or a sense of inevitability that’s not yet reflected on a scoreboard. The other team...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 15, 2016 | Health, Politics
Conventional wisdom has, for decades, informed us that foods high in cholesterol increase our blood cholesterol levels. As it turned out, conventional wisdom is wrong. Not for the first time, and not for the last. We shouldn’t be distressed by this. It is the...
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...
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