by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 1, 2020 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Guns, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
The University of California at Berkeley, the place where woke happened decades before everywhere else, recently woke up to the fact that its law school carried a name of a racist. What was formerly the John Boalt Law School is now merely The Law Building. A...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 26, 2020 | Economics, Guns
The phrase “ghost gun” evokes spooky, sinister, and seedy-underground images of nefarious types doing Bad Things, especially in the minds of folks who aren’t well versed in firearms knowledge and/or suspicious of guns in general. It’s one you...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 19, 2020 | Guns
The Democratic Party recently completed its takeover of Virginia’s state government. Drunk with power, the party leaders have embarked on an aggressive agenda of progressive policy ideas, including major restrictions on gun rights. They follow in the footsteps...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 29, 2019 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
129 years ago today, the US government massacred several hundred members of the Lakota tribe, many of them women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The government troops were there, onto their land (the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation) to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 6, 2019 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
When it comes to individual rights, some, to paraphrase Orwell, are ‘more equal than others.’ In private life and free discourse, it should not alarm us all that much that a political writer prioritizes free speech, a churchgoer prioritizes religious...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 8, 2019 | Culture, Environment, Guns, Opinion, Politics
A current, virally popular Internet meme template is “Woman Yelling At A Cat,” which depicts Real Housewife of Beverly Hills Taylor Armstrong crying and pointing at a smug-looking (aren’t they all?) white cat, with a caption that mocks the woman for...
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