by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 16, 2019 | Economics, Politics, Taxation
Amazon’s much-ballyhooed “competition” for its next major headquarters locations has been quite a spectacle. After months of one of the world’s four most valuable companies basically asking cities and states for handouts and special treatment,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 4, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
My fellow Americans. It has been two years since I stepped down from the job I coveted, felt I deserved, and felt I executed ably, and passed the Presidency on to a successor from the opposition party. After my initial shock at that Election Day outcome wore off, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 29, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
A political friend brought my attention to an interesting (and growing) phenomenon in the public sphere: the mining of someone’s distant past for transgressions against current social mandates. Or, more sinisterly, as a means of taking down someone with whom...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 23, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
All around me, people are engaging in all sorts of post-hoc adjustments of their initial public reactions to the Covington High School incident. I’m going to engage in a tiny bit of smug here, because I neither had nor offered any knee-jerk response to the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 8, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
Disgraced stand-up comic and comedy auteur Louis C.K. caught some more flak from the social justice scolds, recently, as recordings of some of recent performances were “leaked” (oh, how sinister and socially responsible that term is!). The quoted jokes are...
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