by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 6, 2021 | Health, Opinion, Politics
The pandemic has gone on long enough to draw some broad historical lessons. The first is that America’s management was not fitting for the leader of the free world. Compared to our achievements in the Second World War, it is hard to escape the conclusion that we...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Mar 29, 2021 | Economics, Health, Politics
Civics 101 taught me that a “Taking” of property by the government requires compensation. This is a continuation of an English precedent going back centuries, so it’s not surprising that a court overturned, as a Taking, the eviction moratorium, in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 25, 2021 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
Let us contemplate, as the Biden administration rushes to cripple the American economy with brute-force carbon reduction measures as part of its “green”/global warming agenda, that nothing America does will make one whit’s worth of difference to...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Mar 20, 2021 | Health, Politics
As regular readers know, I have worked as a paramedic in New York City for over 25 years. Covid was the hardest challenge of my career, by far. It was the challenge of the century to our healthcare system (and our society). Controversy rages around Governor...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 18, 2021 | Culture, Guns, Health, Opinion, Politics
This past Tuesday evening, an individual murdered eight people in three Atlanta area “spas” (i.e. massage parlors). Six of the eight were Asian women. A suspect, a 21 year old white man, was promptly arrested, and at this juncture it appears pretty certain...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 18, 2021 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Here in my home state of New York, land of the second-highest per-capita COVID mortality rate in the nation, a major scandal is unfolding in slow-motion. Governor Cuomo, the object of swooning adulation this past spring for his supposedly “adult” handling...
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