by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 30, 2021 | Economics, Politics, Taxation
America has a free rider problem. Except when she doesn’t. Except when she does. Except when she doesn’t. Depending on who you talk to, progressive taxation combined with various forms of welfare are either a justified “redistribution” of...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Mar 29, 2021 | Economics, Health, Politics
Civics 101 taught me that a “Taking” of property by the government requires compensation. This is a continuation of an English precedent going back centuries, so it’s not surprising that a court overturned, as a Taking, the eviction moratorium, in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 19, 2021 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Students of history know that the original “cancel culture” was the Soviet Union in the 1930s, when Stalin and his apparatchiks sent millions to forced labor camps, often based on nothing more than suspicion of unfavored political views (and often not even...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 18, 2021 | Culture, Guns, Health, Opinion, Politics
This past Tuesday evening, an individual murdered eight people in three Atlanta area “spas” (i.e. massage parlors). Six of the eight were Asian women. A suspect, a 21 year old white man, was promptly arrested, and at this juncture it appears pretty certain...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 5, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Three weeks ago, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s top aide, secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa, had an “oops” moment, wherein she confessed to something that many of us already knew: that there were not only thousands of deaths attributable to a...
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