by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 15, 2016 | Culture
An old adage warns “Give an inch and they take a mile.” This pearl of wisdom, dating back nearly five centuries, warns against making unnecessary concessions. It’s a highly validated observation of human nature, and it’s the core of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 14, 2016 | Culture, Election, Politics
A mere few years back, the American Left was doing its best to avoid association with the term socialism. Hardcore liberals weren’t happy about it, because they liked the principles of socialism, but came to understand that the rest of the nation, and not just...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 8, 2016 | Culture
It’s no secret that leftists reserve their greatest scorn, derision and vitriol for people who, by demographic category, are supposed to side with them but choose not to. Pro-life women and black conservatives are two of the more prominent categories subject to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 1, 2016 | Culture
The evolutionary biologist and noted atheist Richard Dawkins was caught up in a brouhaha after sharing on his Twitter feed a link to a video that mockingly depicts a commonality between the beliefs of Islamists and feminists. Dawkins’ tweet included the comment...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 1, 2016 | Culture, Politics
I often find a fair bit of schadenfreude when I witness by-the-book liberals twisting in the winds of dissonance. One of the more satisfying forms of this comes when an organization exalted by the Left says something that the Left cannot abide. Watching the outrage,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 30, 2016 | Culture, Election, Politics
The title of this essay is the first half of a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien. I have long believed that in this bit of wisdom lies the only solution to the endlessly creeping statism that’s been engulfing the United States the way The Blob did its victims....
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