by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2019 | Economics, Education, Election, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
… To Love and Hate Allow me to offer a campaign platform: A nationalized health care system, funded and managed at the state/local level, with private health insurance purchaseable by those who want it. A transition to a privatized, defined-contribution Social...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 22, 2019 | Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Q: What do our border emergencies and the readiness of our military have in common? A: The Firemen First Principal. This refers to the government’s way of closing down its vital functions before they look to strip out waste or alter failed policies. Once...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 19, 2019 | Politics
I’ve spent far too much of my life dealing with the headaches of owning a car in New York City (and, to a lesser extent, its suburbs). As if the near-eternal traffic isn’t enough, parking is itself a giant time-suck for too many of us. The neighborhood...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 16, 2019 | Politics
Consider the island nation of Cuba, a nation under communist rule for sixty years, and its progressive defenders/apologists. Cuba, we are told, is a wonderful place. It has a near-100% literacy rate, and it has allegedly superb medical care for its citizens. In fact,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 13, 2019 | Culture, Election, Environment, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Bill De Blasio, mayor of New York for another two and a half years, then (thankfully) term-limited into the history books and (hopefully) ignominious obscurity, is continuing his (farcical) quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination by engaging in rhetoric...
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