by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Mar 10, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Consider the Bible’s Matthew Effect, often interpreted as “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” At first this would seem unchristian, hardly of the same school as “the meek shall inherit the earth.” Seen through the lens of life...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 7, 2018 | Culture, Opinion
A sorta-provocative headline at the Washington Post, “It’s Time to Give Socialism A Try,” made me a bit cranky this morning. Having seen this sort of sentiment more times than I can count, I’ve developed a standard first response, along the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 2, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
In a move that further roiled an already-jittery stock market, President Trump announced substantial tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, supposedly in the name of national security. The assertion is risible, but it makes for great theater for the protectionists...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 24, 2018 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics
The public debate – at least what passes for debate in 2018 – over the Parkland school shooting and what to do about it, continues to evolve. Responses (I won’t call them solutions, because most of them won’t make a hill-of-beans difference to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 17, 2018 | Culture, Guns, Opinion
Part 2 Of A Two-Part Look At the Parkland Mass Shooting My first post about the Parkland shooting focused underlying societal sickness that feeds the sort of deranged minds capable of planning and perpetrating such an atrocity. I concluded that a societal shift, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 17, 2018 | Culture, Guns, Opinion
Part 1 Of A Two-Part Look At the Parkland Mass Shooting Another horrific school shooting. Followed, as usual, by instant outrage, virtue signaling, finger-pointing, and “do-something” demands, all before facts and circumstances become known. Some scream at...
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