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 Eugene Darden Nicholas | Dec 28, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
This scribbler has advocated for normalizing impeachment in these pages many times. The reasons are legion: our politicians need more checking, since they gain impunity as they lose accountability, with their re-elections close to being assured. They emit rules and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 25, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
Among the many bits of news and information that recently crossed my feed were two that offered a stark contrast in, lets call it “prog-activism.” The first involved the staging of Mrs. Doubtfire in Seattle. Apparently, the Seattle Times, in an unsigned...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 21, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
In a long-ago conversation with someone of a social-justice bent, I offered up the element of the “Protestant work ethic” that’s about “being left alone in one’s toil,” as a goal of people of a libertarian bent. The context was...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 20, 2019 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Comedian Chris Rock once asked his audience, “who’s the biggest liars, men or women?” After a rowdy crowd response, he informed us that “men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies.” His explanation is consistently hilarious, but he...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 17, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
I choose not to watch television news. At all. No CNN, no Fox, no MSNBC, none of the broadcast networks. I much prefer to read my news, because the data rate is so much greater and because I don’t care for the curating, drip-feeding, and editing-by-omission that...
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