by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 3, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
With Independence Day looming, Nike designed a patriotic sneaker, with the Betsy Ross flag, and started manufacturing for sale to the public. Colin Kaepernick, who’s built a second career as a self-appointed influencer of all things race- and slavery-related,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 30, 2019 | Culture, Drug Policy, Health, Opinion, Politics
San Francisco, the woker-than-thou epicenter of all things progressive, just broke new ground by banning the sale of e-cigarette, aka vaping, products. Ironically, you can still buy actual tobacco cigarettes in San Francisco, and buy them more cheaply than in some...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 29, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
A few years ago, I proposed the banning of the spooky-sounding chemical 1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione, which has so infested our food supply that hundreds of millions of Americans suffer daily exposure. Not very libertarian of me, I know, but beyond that, I suspect...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 28, 2019 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
Bump stocks, the mostly irrelevant “gimmick” that most people hadn’t even heard of prior to the Las Vegas mass shooting, are back in the news, thanks to a lawsuit filed by the Gun Owners of America (GOA) (hey, NRA, learn a lesson here). That suit,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 24, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
This month brings us a span of celebrations and events feting the liberation of the gay lifestyle, collectively known as World Pride. These celebrations, coming on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a two day demonstration against a police raid of the...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 23, 2019 | Culture, Drug Policy, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
When Donald Trump ran for office, there was nothing unusual about our illegal immigration issue. The height of the problem, such as it ever was, happened in 2005. We had less of an issue with illegal migration when the borders were unenforced. Then, migrant workers,...
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