by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 28, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
I caught a chunklet of an Internet conversation the other day, wherein a couple obviously left-leaning (and intersectional) commenters offered a perfunctory dismissal of Thomas Sowell (and Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson, because Black Non-Liberals are all the same,...
by BALAZS BENKO | Jun 23, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution. The process and the way it manifests About a month ago, I was requested to put together a longer piece on the process I can summarize by term “permanent progressivist revolution”. I was...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 22, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The race debate prompted by George Floyd’s killing rages on, with the protestors coalescing around a “Defund the Police” mantra, and their antipodes twisting pretzels in order to rebut the assertions of ‘systemic’ police racism. Just as I...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 20, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The American system of government has been described as a “great experiment,” given how radically different it was from how the world operated at time of its inception. It was a huge success and inspired many imitators. That was a couple hundred years ago....
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 19, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
A police officer friend of mine (then a paramedic, now NYPD) and I used to debate policing inside and out during our shifts together as a paramedic team. He was a law school graduate and an intellectually honest adversary. At the risk of treating him as a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 17, 2020 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
The BLM movement, which has emerged as the “voice” of the George Floyd protests, has chosen to embrace the mantra “Defund The Police” as its remedy to the problems and factors that have resulted in unjustified killings of civilians by law...
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