by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 6, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
Let’s see. Iran engages in a of provocations in the Middle East, beyond its long-running status as a state sponsor of terrorism in places like Israel, and culminating with orchestration of an attack on the US Embassy in Iraq. The US responds by killing the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 5, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Government, especially limited government in a free society, has a core purpose: to protect and defend the rights of its citizens. From within and from without. Unless you’re an anarcho-capitalistic parents’-house-cellar-dweller, or a socialistic/fascistic...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 2, 2020 | Economics, Politics
Bill De Blasio, current occupant of Gracie Mansion, and purported mayor of New York City, got his more-woke-than-thou knickers in a twist over the fact that some Dominos locations in Times Square were delivering pizzas to the revelers who’d gathered hours ahead...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 29, 2019 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
129 years ago today, the US government massacred several hundred members of the Lakota tribe, many of them women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The government troops were there, onto their land (the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation) to...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Dec 28, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
This scribbler has advocated for normalizing impeachment in these pages many times. The reasons are legion: our politicians need more checking, since they gain impunity as they lose accountability, with their re-elections close to being assured. They emit rules and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 20, 2019 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Comedian Chris Rock once asked his audience, “who’s the biggest liars, men or women?” After a rowdy crowd response, he informed us that “men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies.” His explanation is consistently hilarious, but he...
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