by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 22, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Politics, Taxation
CNN, taking a break from its “Trump Sucks, All The Time” programming, recently offered a breathless hand-wringing about Costco’s $4.99 rotisserie chicken. Apparently, the item is hugely popular, and a big attraction for customers. CNN devoted much...
by Xavier L. Simon | Oct 20, 2019 | Culture, Education, Guns, Health, Politics
I doubt that we are ever going to deal effectively with lone shooters, especially if policing breaks down like it did in Parkland. We can, however, ameliorate the problem, including especially in inner cities where the real mass shootings occur: Almost sixty just in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 14, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
Social media, the place where every fleeting thought becomes a set-in-stone opinion whose rejection is tantamount to eating raw baby seals in front of a kindergarten class, was (of course) awash in the usual virtue-signaling and Starbucks-stool erudition about...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 14, 2019 | Culture, Environment, Politics
CNN contributor Bakari Sellers recently opined that: Climate change should be a definitive issue for Black voters, but it isn’t. He went on to blame the whiteness of environmental activist groups. He has a point… sort of. A survey by The Atlantic found that...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 13, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
A recent Wall Street Journal article puts forth the argument that social justice warriors are genuine and sincere in their belief sets and in the laundry-list/word-salad complaints and accusations they routinely lob at the rest of us. The author urges us to listen to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 9, 2019 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
An interesting thing happened yesterday. Donald Trump’s lawyers made a point. Yes, I went for the cheap laugh, but it’s not the point in the context of the impeachment circus, but the broader illumination that point sheds on a very troubling aspect of the...
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