by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 10, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
Back at the turn of the century – the 19th century, that is, a movement arose to battle against graft and corruption in government, by supporting candidates of a reform mindset. They were mockingly called goo-goos, short, of course, for...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 9, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion
A joke/lesson that’s been around since pre-Internet days posits two cows within different nations and/or economic systems. It’s both funny and instructive (as my calling it a joke/lesson implies, clearly), and one version can be found here. Among all sorts...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 27, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Education, Politics
A recent kerfuffle on the gossip pages involved the engagement of 65 year old Dennis Quaid to his 26 year old girlfriend. It’ll be his fourth marriage and her first. Typing “Dennis Quaid” into Twitter’s search field offered, as the third...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 26, 2019 | Drug Policy, Economics
America’s opioid crisis has been uniquely lethal. A look around the world shows us how other nations have mitigated it much more successfully. For starters, we can say drug policy in America is killing people through failure to adapt, but there are two other...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 21, 2019 | Opinion, Politics, Taxation
I had dinner with a group of friends last night, and in typical fashion, much of the conversation was political. One friend put forth a surprising (to me) assertion: that it was a proper function of government to provide health care to everyone. He called it a...
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