by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 13, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
Much is being made of our “abandoning” Afghanistan (they abandoned us, when they did not “cowboy-up” to defend themselves, is how I see it). Well: Civilized world governments have a doctrine against assaults on human rights of the kind the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 22, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Education, Environment, Opinion, Politics
The Art Institute of Chicago recently announced an end to its 60 years-running docent program. 122 volunteers, averaging more than 15 years experience, who gave “tours to millions, including more than 100,000 schoolchildren each year, many from the city’s mostly...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 8, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Back in 1969, bureaucrats testified to Congress that 155 high earners had managed to work their tax returns to where they paid no income tax… in one specific year. Anyone who understands the vagaries of business investing, capital gains and losses, tax loss...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 6, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
Most Americans are convinced the nation has gone off the rails. The proofs: a mountain of debt (with much more to come) with no Marshal Plan leaps over normal market evolutions to show for it (and with none coming); our political system devolved into tribal warfare...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Sep 13, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
How many articles predicting the ruin that became Afghanistan’s end-game have you read? I recently wrote one, and in all my study for it, I could not find a single source that forecast the speed of the Afghan National Army (ANA) collapse. In the many versions I...
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