by Peter Venetoklis | May 6, 2021 | Culture, Drug Policy, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
It didn’t take America very long to figure out that alcohol prohibition was a bad idea. The Volstead Act, which took effect in 1920 to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, was repealed, via the Twenty-First Amendment, in 1933. Prohibitionists being who and what...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 5, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a story on Jordan Peterson, the Canadian clinical psychologist, Youtube phenom, and lightning rod for the woke-Left. In it, Peterson suggests that the attractiveness of the various movements that draw young activists (left and...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 27, 2021 | Health, Opinion, Politics
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made a now-notorious decision to concentrate COVID patients in nursing homes. This produced America’s worst losses of the pandemic. I worked as a paramedic in New York City throughout, and have had conversations with a number of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 13, 2021 | Economics, Health, Opinion, Politics
The Babylon Bee, where snark flourishes, has offered us a commemoration: Nation Prepares To Celebrate 1st Anniversary Of Two Weeks To Flatten The Curve The humor-impaired and virus-aggressive will bristle at this joke, as much because of the truths it rests upon as...
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...
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