by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 6, 2019 | Immigration, Politics
We adapted to World War Two by training up an army nearly from scratch. We built a Navy of globe-spanning capability in short order. We created a new intelligence institution that performed better than its professional replacement. With tools adapted to the need, we...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 6, 2019 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics
Movie naughtiness in the pre-MPAA era. “Jazz musicians,” code for black entertainers who smoked pot. Elvis Presley’s hips. Comic book salaciousness. The Beatles’ mop tops. Jim Morrison saying “get much higher” on Ed Sullivan....
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 5, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
We witness, yet again, the horror of innocents going about their daily routines murdered en masse by a piece of human garbage. Twice in one day, in El Paso and Dayton. The history of such events cautions us to take our time in our pursuit of understanding, to avoid...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 5, 2019 | Culture, Guns, Health, Opinion, Politics
Two more mass shootings, and an entirely predictable spectrum of responses and proposed remedies from the usual sources. Politicians, both from the Rahm Emanuel angle and as a general rule, leap immediately to advance the solutions that fit their ideologies....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 31, 2019 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
The usual places have been buzzing over the latest “deadline” to save the planet, one that’s quite interesting in both its timing and its delayed dissemination. A BBC report quotes “Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder and now director emeritus...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 30, 2019 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Much (deserved) shade was thrown at some of the Democratic Presidential candidates’ plans to institute a “Medicare for All” system that outlawed private insurance plans. I expect that someone got in their ears and told them a – that the...
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