Monday, October 31, 2016

Washington Ballot on Enacting First Statewide Carbon Tax: Yea or Nay?

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The carbon tax can hardly be considered a new innovation in the world of environmental public policy anymore. Finland implemented the first ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Portugal Stuck in a "Vicious Cycle" of Economic Stagnation

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The Great Recession in Portugal, which lasted from 2010 to 2014, screwed over the Portuguese government by making it nigh impossible to pay ...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Clinton's Child Care Program: Immature Tax Policy

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Back in May, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said that she wanted to bring child care costs down to the point where they w...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

UNESCO Rewriting Jewish History: Just Another Reason to Dissolve UNESCO

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The United Nations is hardly close to being my most favorite of international organizations out there. Yet it keeps doing ridiculous things...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Ushpizin: Having Sukkot Guests as a Spiritual Act

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Sukkot: the Jewish harvest festival. It has a number of particular rituals that may seem peculiar to some. One Sukkot practice that is not a...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

California Proposition 60: A Flaccid Attempt to Over-Regulate Condom Usage in the Porn Industry

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I know some peculiar laws have been proposed in California, whether it is a GMO label law  or San Francisco's attempted ban on circumcis...
Sunday, October 9, 2016

How Saying Yizkor Enhances Yom Kippur

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I find Judaism to generally be a life-affirming religion, but there are moments where death becomes a motif within the Jewish religion. On S...
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