by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 27, 2020 | Economics, Politics
The women’s rights movement did a bit of recent headline grabbing when Virginia’s new-blue government ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. That the deadline for ratification passed decades ago (probably) makes this a symbolic gesture, although I’m...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jan 25, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
Another war, with yet another Middle Eastern adversary, this time Iran, seems closer than ever. Iran’s response to the killing of their hybrid-war-terrorism mastermind, Qasam Soleimani, seems a calculated saving of face, but the bloodshed is unlikely to end...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 21, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
There’s an old gag about and among libertarians – that our favorite pastime is denouncing each other over trivial differences in view or belief. Indeed, no matter how hard I stump for libertarian ideas or for policy movements in the direction of liberty,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 20, 2020 | Environment, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
A recent Wall Street Journal article noted that there’s been a substantial decrease in illegal southern border crossings, despite the absence of the wall that Trump has been trying to get built for most of his Presidency. This should be welcome news to wall...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 18, 2020 | Politics
New York’s progressives took a bold leap forward into woke-ville last year with some major “reforms” to the bail system, reforms that essentially eliminated cash bail for all but the worst violent offenders. While bail is not itself supposed to be a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 10, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
My wife and I have been working our way through Season 3 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, an Amazon Prime comedy that I strongly recommend. At this point of our viewing (mild spoilers), it’s 1960, Midge Maisel’s father, a mathematician and professor at...
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