Monthly Archives: March 2019

Civics and US Constitutional Provisions 101: Benefiting Those Who “Matter” while Penalizing Those Who Do Not

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Dr Joseph Russo

The end-result of an educational system that has focused on what I believe to be the wrong things for the past 50 years (really and truly, for the last 25 years or so) is a near-complete collapse of understanding of … Continue reading →

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The Dermaclip Tax

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Dr Joseph Russo

Yesterday, I posted and discussed ever-so-briefly a chart of inflated costs for various things over the course of the past two decades. Health care costs had accelerated almost as fast as a college education (well over 200%) in the years … Continue reading →

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Inflation and the Cost of Government Protection

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Dr Joseph Russo

I bumped into this chart via the writings of Jordan Peterson, he of Canada and the book Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. What struck me about this chart (authored by Mark J. Perry, a scholar at the … Continue reading →

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