by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 9, 2018 | Culture
I recently caught an interview of comedian Tracy Morgan (from April 2, 2018, interviewed on SiriusXM by the great Ron Bennington), in which Morgan spoke his mind about the harm that political correctness has done to comedy and to society: That PC shit taught us how to...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 5, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Opinion
The annals of history tell us that, across millennia, income redistribution flows upward, from the poor to the rich (like the economics of most of Africa today). The poor, today, would be better off opposing income redistribution, here and now in America, in how their...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 30, 2018 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Politics
A tidbit found in a Reason.com article about the unintended consequences of War on Drugs tactics illustrates both the vapidity and destructiveness of “show-off” responses to societal issues. An effort to tackle cocaine use included an initiative to pay...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 22, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
Consider this adage, from writer Carl Shirky: Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. Now, consider the laundry list of social problems that have lingered for decades, despite the best efforts of big government, advocacy groups,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 15, 2018 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Liberty lovers found a kernel of positivity in Trump’s 2018 State of the Union address in his support for legislation allowing terminally ill patients the “right to try” experimental treatments. The embedded principle is controversial (obviously,...
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