by Peter Venetoklis | May 6, 2021 | Culture, Drug Policy, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
It didn’t take America very long to figure out that alcohol prohibition was a bad idea. The Volstead Act, which took effect in 1920 to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, was repealed, via the Twenty-First Amendment, in 1933. Prohibitionists being who and what...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 30, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Education, Election, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
The American Rescue Plan: $1,900,000,000,000. The American Jobs Plan: $2,300,000,000,000. The American Families Plan: $1,800,000,000,000. One hundred days. Six trillion dollars. Biden promised big things, and boy, has he delivered. Not one, but three colossal...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 16, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
A few months ago, the New York Post ran a series of stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop and its contents. Twitter decided that this was not to be shared across its platform, and suspended the Post’s account. Only a rank partisan would imagine that Twitter...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 5, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Georgia and Texas enacted voting reforms in the wake of the mess that was the 2020 election. Quick as you can say “woke,” the states’ legislators and governors were denounced by the Democratic leadership and by those of a “woke”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 2, 2021 | Economics, Election, Environment, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Millions of Americans recently saw their bank accounts grow by $1400 or some multiple thereof. They have been told that these shekels are part of what it’s going to take to help America recover from the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. That many of...
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