by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 31, 2020 | Election, Opinion, Politics
As I’ve noted ad nauseam on these pages, too many libertarians love, love, LOVE to denounce each other. More so, even, than their denouncement of non-libertarians of both the Left and the Right. It’s shallow moral preening, virtue-signaling,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 30, 2020 | Election, Opinion, Politics
“Mixed bag.” A phrase I’ve used more times than I can count in reference to the Trump administration’s policies and actions of these past four years. There are things to like, there are things to dislike, and there are things to hate, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 29, 2020 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Being an Internet political warrior, I’ve accrued a number of virtual friends and acquaintances (a subset of whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting ‘IRL,’ as the kids say). Among them are a sheaf of never-Trump conservatives who’ve...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 28, 2020 | Politics
I recently wrote of how our major political parties have become compromised by their cynical transactions, and how that state of compromise means that they both occupy the same solution space on many major areas of public policy. This includes militarism: there is...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 28, 2020 | Election, Opinion, Politics
A funny thing happened on the way to the election. The Press, the Fourth Estate, the Commentariat, the watchdogs who work to keep government honest, an element of a free society deemed so vital to its continued liberty, decided of its own volition to become a state...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 23, 2020 | Election, Opinion, Politics
George Orwell wrote of a world run by unaccountable Ministries that told people the words to use and the thoughts to think, that controlled behavior, and punished dissent ruthlessly and mercilessly. “Orwellian” has entered our lexicon, and we find example...
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