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 | Nov 27, 2018 | Politics
Libertarians (among others) often criticize the past few decades worth of foreign entanglements, pointing out that they have almost universally not gone as intended, have almost universally produced unintended adverse consequences, and have cost the nation trillions...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 21, 2018 | Economics, Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
The midterm elections are over, and where the Trump phenomenon began as a radical overturning of our political status quo (“right diagnosis, wrong treatment,” I argued at the time), the traditional rules of American politics return: the incumbent...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 5, 2018 | Drug Policy
The number of drug addicts in the USA is on the rise, and opioid overdoses are killing Americans at rate where policy must adapt. Adapt, because our attempt to incarcerate our way out of this problem has resulted in what is the greatest jailing of people in the...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 30, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
The Salvadoran gang MS-13 recently splashed all over the headlines because, bizarrely, the press and the TDS blogosphere decided to go non-linear over Trump’s calling some of them “animals.” In an exemplar of the modern media’s tendentiousness,...
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