by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 28, 2021 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
As promised (or as threatened, if you prefer), President Biden has made quick moves to advance the “greening” of America. Or, more accurately, to satiate the green lobby, an unholy alliance of ignorant virtucrats and corporate rent-seekers. He killed the...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Dec 3, 2020 | Election, Opinion, Politics
An outsider that looked at a system of 90% disapproval, with 90% non-adaptivity, would conclude there was some kind of fundamental flaw. Most Americans agree this is true of our political system. Ask a spectrum of Americans if they think the system is broken, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 2, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Every so often, a new word becomes de mode in the political sandbox. While the metastasizing social justice movement has provided a veritable deluge of such, along with words to describe those words, oftentimes a “new” word is merely one being used in a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 27, 2020 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Editors Note: This article is a follow-up to Inconvenience or Devastation, which explores citizens’ motivations in complying with pandemic lockdowns. In the grand tradition of dividing people into two groups, today sort people based on their attitude toward...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 13, 2020 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Editors Note: This article is a follow-up to The Politics of Lockdowns, which explores politicians’ motives and motivations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Early on in the COVID crisis, many warned that this fall would bring a second wave of infections, as...
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