by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 7, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
Regular readers of this blog will recall that I’ve written of a grievance hierarchy, where competing identity groups sort themselves (or are sorted by the progressive taste-makers) into a sort of dog-pile, with those on top getting more protection and deference...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 6, 2019 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
When was the last time you heard someone use the phrase “social contract?” It used to be the go-to justification for all the things the big government types demanded government do and we accede to. It seems to have been replaced by euphemisms like...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 4, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
The Democratic Party’s leftward lurch, led by Bernie Sanders’ heir-apparent, “it-girl” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has hit a few internecine bumps in the road of late, with AOC threatening to primary the “moderates” who aren’t...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 22, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Presidential election politics typically follow a predictable arc. Candidates throw their hats into the ring, offering up a litany of lip service to the party’s hard-core. This means feeding whatever “edge” views are in vogue among the politically...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 19, 2019 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Lynne Patton, the regional director of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, is planning to actually live, for a few weeks, in some of the buildings in her charge. This is newsworthy enough to be worth a blog post on its own, and I tip my hat to the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 16, 2019 | Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Much hay was made about how Nancy Pelosi got the better of Trump when he agreed to end the government shut-down a few weeks ago without getting his wall money. That was a bit premature, since all they did was kick the can down the road a couple weeks. It’s now a...
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