by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 21, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
There’s an old gag about and among libertarians – that our favorite pastime is denouncing each other over trivial differences in view or belief. Indeed, no matter how hard I stump for libertarian ideas or for policy movements in the direction of liberty,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 20, 2020 | Environment, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
A recent Wall Street Journal article noted that there’s been a substantial decrease in illegal southern border crossings, despite the absence of the wall that Trump has been trying to get built for most of his Presidency. This should be welcome news to wall...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 10, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
My wife and I have been working our way through Season 3 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, an Amazon Prime comedy that I strongly recommend. At this point of our viewing (mild spoilers), it’s 1960, Midge Maisel’s father, a mathematician and professor at...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 6, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
Let’s see. Iran engages in a of provocations in the Middle East, beyond its long-running status as a state sponsor of terrorism in places like Israel, and culminating with orchestration of an attack on the US Embassy in Iraq. The US responds by killing the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 5, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Government, especially limited government in a free society, has a core purpose: to protect and defend the rights of its citizens. From within and from without. Unless you’re an anarcho-capitalistic parents’-house-cellar-dweller, or a socialistic/fascistic...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 4, 2020 | Health, Opinion
Weekends during my childhood often involved watching old Abbott and Costello films on one of the local television channels. One bit had Costello find Abbott and some other men playing craps. Costello naively asked what they were doing, and Abbott, thinking Lou was a...
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