by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 9, 2021 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Get on an airplane. Work at a government job. Enter a government building. Open a checking, savings, brokerage, or retirement account. Apply for a credit card, loan, or mortgage. Apply for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Welfare, food stamps, or other government...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 8, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Back in 1969, bureaucrats testified to Congress that 155 high earners had managed to work their tax returns to where they paid no income tax… in one specific year. Anyone who understands the vagaries of business investing, capital gains and losses, tax loss...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 13, 2021 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
No, not that epidemic. The obesity epidemic. Ours is a marvelously schizophrenic society, and it’s almost nowhere more apparent than in its duality regarding obesity. We hear constant concern about an obesity epidemic, about it being a public health crisis, and...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 7, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
As the resident Roots of Liberty writer on legal dysfunction, I find the latest Bill Cosby boot to be my bailiwick. It is all but certain that Bill Cosby is an abuser of women, and needs to be punished, yet the state of Pennsylvania failed to serve Cosby’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 7, 2021 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, he of the COVID nursing home disaster, the $5.1M “look at how brilliantly I managed the pandemic” book deal, and nearly a dozen sexual harassment allegations, has boldly declared a state of emergency over “gun...
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