by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 28, 2017 | Economics, Politics
As the old gag goes, there are two types of people in the world: Those who divide people into two types and those who don’t. Modern identity politics will tell you that there are dozens upon dozens of types of people in the world, including at least sixty-three...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 27, 2017 | Politics
In a vast churning sea of outrage at the Trump administration, a sea that, as Dilbert artist and blogger Scott Adams notes, is diluting individual outrages to where they are lost in the maelstrom, it takes some serious effort for one to stand apart. Steve Bannon,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 24, 2017 | Economics, Politics
President Trump recently announced that his administration would be seeking to cut federal regulations by 75% or more. Should he manage this, the achievement would become the stuff of legend in small-government circles. Of course, nanny-staters, control freaks,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 22, 2017 | Election, Opinion, Politics
That which we are seeing on the political landscape today, from President Trump’s carnie-barker bluster to the non-compos-mentis rants by Ashley Judd and others at the women’s marches yesterday, are rooted in a fixation on words over deeds. That fixation...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 21, 2017 | Economics, Politics
The history books tell us that Donald Trump gave one of the shorter inaugural speeches in presidential history. The symbolism, in length, in content and in style, should not be lost. His brief and plain speech was a third shorter than Obama’s two speeches and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 21, 2017 | Election, Opinion, Politics
The title of this essay, cribbed from the penultimate sentence of a recent op-ed by conservative columnist Rich Lowry, embodies the essence of how the Left views itself today, the day after their collective nightmare was sworn in as President. The bitterness and sad...
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