by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 26, 2016 | Election, Opinion, Politics
President Obama, less than a month from exiting the White House, recently opined that he could have won a third term had he run. The Constitution’s Twenty-Second Amendment, ratified in 1951, limits presidents to two terms, and conspiracists’ warnings...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Dec 24, 2016 | Politics
Cliche at this point to say, but a shift of political tectonics is underway across the developed world. To me, the remarkable commonality among the insurgents is the lack of either philosophical or practical specificity; gassiness (not one newspaper in the country...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 22, 2016 | Politics
Contemplate the history of socialism since its first political manifestation in Bolshevik Russia in 1917. Consider the list of countries have had, at one point or another, self-identified as “socialist.” Now, check out this little clip. One notion...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 18, 2016 | Opinion, Politics
Every so often, an internet graphic of a political nature goes viral, and serves to propagate an opinion that many incorrectly present as “fact.” One such, a graph that plots various news sources against two axes (journalistic quality/standards and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 16, 2016 | Election, Politics
An article in the NY Daily News recently caught my eye. It notes that Trump’s cabinet picks are, by and large, far less educated (per the author’s measure) than the people they are replacing. Given the Daily News’ rampant anti-Trumpism (google...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 11, 2016 | Election, Politics
To contribute to the sea of Trump shock ink – and it depresses me to think there is more of it than epic poetry, the same way it’s depressing that there are more Juggalos than polar bears – here is the libertarian takeaway: the anti-establishment...
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