by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 1, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The worst social unrest we have had since the Civil War was caused by the George Floyd race protests. It has cost the nation between one and two billion dollars. No progress on the issues that set them off has been made in over a year (an election year, at that)....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 28, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
It wasn’t that long ago that I lamented the government’s interference in a citizen’s attempt to feed her fellow humans who were struggling due to the COVID lockdowns. In a more recent story, a member of the Charlotte, NC City Council, Tariq Bokhari,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 26, 2021 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
I recently learned something new. Normally, learning something new is a good thing, but the implications of this one are infuriating. As most know, the Woke Left has its own lexicon, and more acronyms than the Department of Defense. It also is constantly trotting out...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 22, 2021 | Culture, Opinion
“Left” political ideology has more regard for utility than principles. That utility is found in its language. George Orwell, this blog’s spiritual father, is the most important teacher of how politics uses the tools of language to serve it, rather...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 21, 2021 | Culture, Opinion
We now have a new national holiday. “Juneteenth,” a celebration of the emancipation of slaves in America that has been celebrated informally or at the state/local level since 1866 , was formalized by the government a few days ago, and we just celebrated...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 19, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
If you dabble in political sandboxes, you are likely familiar with the term “intelligentsia.” It’s been around a couple centuries, if Wikipedia is to be trusted for that datum, and it speaks to both a category of people and to disdain for them. Or,...
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