by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 15, 2016 | Culture
Consider the opening clause from a comment I recently found while perambulating around the Internet. It’s all fun and games until the religious zealot removes your freedoms Taken cold, it could be seen as having been written by a liberal bemoaning the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 14, 2016 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
Safety pins? Seriously? Has the Left collectively turned its brain off? In case some of you aren’t paying attention to the social justice scene, I’m referring to the latest bit of virtue signaling embraced by liberals i.e the wearing of safety pins, as...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 2, 2016 | Culture
Consider a society that celebrates demographic diversity in ever-increasing granularity but decries intellectual diversity in an ever-more-restrictive manner. Even as gender, now deemed a construct rather than a biological characteristic, has been diversified from two...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 30, 2016 | Culture, Election, Politics
There was a day, before on-demand, before Netflix, before Blockbuster Video, before even HBO, when missing a movie in it theatrical release meant you had to wait for the television networks to broadcast it. Since the networks were subject to FCC regulations and...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 27, 2016 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
Richard Nixon is synonymous with Presidential crookedness in the USA. But this is more indicative of the political culture of the day than of Nixon’s offenses. In retrospect, Nixon’s political dirty tricks seem quaint compared to what goes on now. And...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 22, 2016 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
One of my disappointments in Gary Johnson’s version of libertarianism lies in what many (erroneously in my opinion) call the question of religious liberty. Or, more colloquially, the gay wedding cake issue. His position, elaborated in a Reason article from...
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