by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 17, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
A few comments I recently read about Barry Goldwater and the Civil Rights act reminded me that personal destruction via accusations of racism are a tactic that goes back decades. Goldwater voted against the version of the Civil Rights Act that ultimately became law....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 13, 2019 | Culture, Election, Environment, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Bill De Blasio, mayor of New York for another two and a half years, then (thankfully) term-limited into the history books and (hopefully) ignominious obscurity, is continuing his (farcical) quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination by engaging in rhetoric...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 23, 2019 | Culture, Drug Policy, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
When Donald Trump ran for office, there was nothing unusual about our illegal immigration issue. The height of the problem, such as it ever was, happened in 2005. We had less of an issue with illegal migration when the borders were unenforced. Then, migrant workers,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 18, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
It’s been often commented, in this blog and elsewhere, that Trump is ideologically untethered, that he shoots from the hip far too often, given the importance and power of his position, and that it’s sometimes hard to figure out what he’s thinking...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 3, 2019 | Culture, Politics
It’s right there in the opening credits. The mechanisms of power, the institutions, the gears, are everything. By the time Game of Thrones (GoT) wound down, it was quite clear that the “wheel,” which Daenerys Targaryen devoted her life to breaking,...
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