by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 13, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
I’m old enough to remember that Saturday mornings were cartoon time on the local television channels, and I certainly partook of my share. Interspersed among the Jonny Quest, Magilla Gorilla, Wacky Races, The Pink Panther, and countless others were tons of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 31, 2020 | Culture, Opinion
Back in 2014, a “writer, editor, and agitator” named Vicky Osterweil wrote an essay titled “In Defense of Looting,” and published it during the unrest following the death-by-cop of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (for the record, the local...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 29, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Health, Politics, Taxation
A long-running hallmark of progressive politics is urban planning – the idea that the Best-and-Brightest (TM) should organize our physical lives in a fashion that advances certain goals. Those goals are purported to include efficiency, environmental stewardship,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 12, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The social and cultural reverberations of the George Floyd killing continue, in ever-more-worrisome form. Major cities around the nation are devolving into criminal chaos, with shootings, homicides, vandalism, and looting spiking. Urban flight is increasing, with home...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 29, 2020 | Election, Politics
Nigh-on twenty years ago, when I was living in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, NY, and working with my family at our restaurant, I put a Libertarian Party sticker on the back window of my SUV. It was a beast of a truck, a Chevy Suburban K2500 in black, with a...
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