by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 1, 2017 | Environment
According to Al Gore, Prince Charles, Bill Nye, and a host of other high-profile enviro-scolds, the world’s burning of carbon fuels is the death knell of civilization itself. Setting their hyperbole aside – the current state of knowledge points more...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 29, 2017 | Culture
Having spent a lot of time in the poor precincts of New York City I can advise with perfect confidence: the unfortunate and neglected, sick, mentally ill, drug and alcohol dependent, care nothing for what the better-off write and share on social media. None of this...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 25, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Consider two recent examples of the resistance to change that politically entrenched organizations put forth, two sides of the same coin, that go together like peanut butter and chocolate. One, which I am dubbing the Freddie Gray syndrome, is the argument that reforms...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2017 | Drug Policy, Politics, Taxation
The Government Hates Competition A heretofore under-reported bit of government odiousness is finally getting the headline treatment it so richly deserves. Civil asset forfeiture, where government seizes money and property it believes was involved in or the result of a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 16, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
I grew up in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, NY. The Brooklyn. Not the old-money Brooklyn that is Brooklyn Heights. Not the hipster-ground-zero Brooklyn that is Park Slope. Not the gentrified Brooklyn that is DUMBO, Red Hook, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Williamsburg or...
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