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 Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 28, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The aftermath of George Floyd’s death under the knee of a police officer has cast a much-needed light on over-policing in our communities. The philosophical basis for that over-policing is the “broken windows” theory, which holds that degradation in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 18, 2020 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics
This past December, a “good guy with a gun” stopped a mass shooting in a northeastern Texas town, putting (again) the lie to the anti-gun dismissiveness about civilians stopping crime. Right on cue, nanny-billionaire Mike Bloomberg chimed in with his...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 14, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
An old adage tells us, “the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle.” Some old adages give us truth and wisdom. This isn’t one of them. In fact, it’s so not one of them that it nomenclated a couple logical fallacies (yeah, yeah, nomenclated...
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...
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