by Eugene Darden Nicholas | May 11, 2021 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up to Death By Procedure, which explored the adverse impact of our tortious culture on the pandemic response. Incentives matter. Since everything in America now seems to be all about politics, it should follow that what is done by...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 7, 2021 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Back when he was writing a column for the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page (Best of the Web Today) instead of editing it, James Taranto had a daily feature called “What Would We Do Without Experts?” It, clearly, mocked absurd expert opinions, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 6, 2021 | Culture, Drug Policy, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
It didn’t take America very long to figure out that alcohol prohibition was a bad idea. The Volstead Act, which took effect in 1920 to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, was repealed, via the Twenty-First Amendment, in 1933. Prohibitionists being who and what...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 30, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Education, Election, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
The American Rescue Plan: $1,900,000,000,000. The American Jobs Plan: $2,300,000,000,000. The American Families Plan: $1,800,000,000,000. One hundred days. Six trillion dollars. Biden promised big things, and boy, has he delivered. Not one, but three colossal...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 27, 2021 | Health, Opinion, Politics
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made a now-notorious decision to concentrate COVID patients in nursing homes. This produced America’s worst losses of the pandemic. I worked as a paramedic in New York City throughout, and have had conversations with a number of...
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