by Peter Venetoklis | May 8, 2019 | Drug Policy, Economics, Education, Health, Opinion, Politics
… and I’m here to help. Ronald Reagan famously declared these the most terrifying words in the English language. His quip embodied his form of conservatism, and ably summarized the repeated (and, as most libertarians will tell you, inevitable) failures of...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 29, 2019 | Economics, Health
Most of us know that the American way of managing homelessness is ineffectual. What is less well known is how expensively ineffectual it is. What we spend on our way (calling it a “system” is laughable)) could provide for a system that works better, many...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 28, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
My Facebook feed recently offered me one of those “red meat” posts intended to stoke outrage and mockery. In this instance, it was purportedly (and I stress purportedly – too many people have no qualms about making stuff up, and too many more have no...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 23, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Let’s ponder a collection of choices: 1 – A nation commits to a “green” energy agenda, to combat global warming. It emphasizes and subsidizes wind and solar power generation. It starts shutting down coal plants. In doing so, it dismisses the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 21, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
The scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail between King Arthur and the anarcho-syndicalist filth farmers ends with Arthur calling Dennis a “bloody peasant.” Dennis then declares: Oh, what a giveaway. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? A raft of...
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