by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 8, 2016 | Culture, Drug Policy
Today’s New York Post offered an article blaring the headline American women are more obese than ever before, which noted that 40% of American women are overweight. I had to dig into the source material to find the historical data to discover what more obese...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 19, 2016 | Environment
Bjorn Lomborg, an environmentalist who is among those who suggest that there are more pressing issues in the world than AGW, was recently disinvited from speaking at an Australian university because some students made a bunch of noise. It exposes the group-think...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 6, 2016 | Economics
Any Internet political warrior will have seen, time and again, accusations leveled against capitalism for the woes that befall them or the societies which the accusers are white-knighting. Rebuttals that the woes they are ascribing to capitalism are far more...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 23, 2016 | Economics
The brilliant economist and “great man” Milton Friedman observed: “there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 6, 2016 | Environment
Drudge linked an amusing little ditty today that discusses how the effects of anthropogenic global warming aka climate change aka climate disruption aka climate catastrophe on rainfall turned out wrong. Yet another predictive failure is nothing out of the ordinary in...
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