by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 18, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Politics, Taxation
Trump’s tax cuts were widely praised by his supporters, and widely panned by the Left. No surprise in either case. The tax cuts were also panned by another, less obvious group: conservative deficit hawks. Many in this crowd purport to be the “true”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 16, 2018 | Environment, Opinion
Over in Poland, a passel of the world’s elite have gathered for the 24th annual Conference of Parties (COP24), to discuss climate change and hammer out an agreement on carbon emission tracking and mitigation. The word coming out of Poland is that the situation...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 13, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Politics
Capitalists and free-marketeers, we are told, don’t care about the poor. Capitalists and free-marketeers, we are told, exploit the poor and the weak for selfish and excessive gains, and actively work to keep them down so that the exploitation can continue....
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 10, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Politics
Forty years ago, a Democrat did an interesting thing. On October 14, 1978, then-president Jimmy Carter signed a bill that, among other things, deregulated the beer industry by legalizing home-brewing. At the time, there were 44 breweries in the country. Old Milwaukee,...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Dec 8, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
Impeachment is in the air as the Democrats take up the House. They promise a “cannon of subpoenas.” The nation will soon grapple with the precedents of properly relieving a President of duty. The precedents are not encouraging, with regard to dressing up...
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