by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 29, 2019 | Economics, Health
Most of us know that the American way of managing homelessness is ineffectual. What is less well known is how expensively ineffectual it is. What we spend on our way (calling it a “system” is laughable)) could provide for a system that works better, many...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 26, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The effort to change the way New York City’s elite public high schools admit students provides us not only with a window into the progressive’s world view, but also with some insight as to the demands placed on our culture’s “oppressed”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 23, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Let’s ponder a collection of choices: 1 – A nation commits to a “green” energy agenda, to combat global warming. It emphasizes and subsidizes wind and solar power generation. It starts shutting down coal plants. In doing so, it dismisses the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 21, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
The scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail between King Arthur and the anarcho-syndicalist filth farmers ends with Arthur calling Dennis a “bloody peasant.” Dennis then declares: Oh, what a giveaway. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? A raft of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 9, 2019 | Drug Policy
As I perused the most recent (April, 2019) issue of Reason, I came across a statistic that made my jaw (figuratively, of course) hit the floor: The annual rate drug of overdose deaths in Portugal is now 1 per 170,000 citizens. The figure is 33 times higher in the...
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