by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 23, 2019 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
Consider the word “ignorance.” Ignorance is, simply put, lack of knowledge or information. It differs from stupidity, or idiocy, or foolishness, in that it’s not a descriptor of a person, but merely of the information that a person possesses. As...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 22, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Politics, Taxation
CNN, taking a break from its “Trump Sucks, All The Time” programming, recently offered a breathless hand-wringing about Costco’s $4.99 rotisserie chicken. Apparently, the item is hugely popular, and a big attraction for customers. CNN devoted much...
by Xavier L. Simon | Oct 20, 2019 | Culture, Education, Guns, Health, Politics
I doubt that we are ever going to deal effectively with lone shooters, especially if policing breaks down like it did in Parkland. We can, however, ameliorate the problem, including especially in inner cities where the real mass shootings occur: Almost sixty just in...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 19, 2019 | Election, Politics
With rancor and recriminations over America’s withdrawing our protection to the Kurds in Syria (the Peshmerga) that resulting in the Turkish invasion now underway, it is illuminating to reflect on how we got into Syria in the first place. But the grand-strategy...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 14, 2019 | Culture, Environment, Politics
CNN contributor Bakari Sellers recently opined that: Climate change should be a definitive issue for Black voters, but it isn’t. He went on to blame the whiteness of environmental activist groups. He has a point… sort of. A survey by The Atlantic found that...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 13, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
A recent Wall Street Journal article puts forth the argument that social justice warriors are genuine and sincere in their belief sets and in the laundry-list/word-salad complaints and accusations they routinely lob at the rest of us. The author urges us to listen to...
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