by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 3, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Politics
It should astound me that, even as Venezuela’s socialist dream collapses into a humanitarian disaster, the front-runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination is a proudly declarative socialist, and the de facto policy voice of the party is a young socialist...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 16, 2019 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
Despite an increasing number of past climate doomsday predictions falling flat, proving exaggerated, or simply not materializing at all, the drumbeat for action to remediate the global warming caused by human carbon emissions continues. And, in the fashion of Chicken...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 15, 2019 | Economics, Education, Politics, Taxation
The great thinker Milton Friedman, in a seminal interview with Phil Donahue, exposed one of the great, under-addressed flaws in the premise of socialism and its other central-planning variants: the fact that the people in charge are no different than the people they...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 4, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
The Democratic Party’s leftward lurch, led by Bernie Sanders’ heir-apparent, “it-girl” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has hit a few internecine bumps in the road of late, with AOC threatening to primary the “moderates” who aren’t...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 22, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Presidential election politics typically follow a predictable arc. Candidates throw their hats into the ring, offering up a litany of lip service to the party’s hard-core. This means feeding whatever “edge” views are in vogue among the politically...
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