by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 23, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
All around me, people are engaging in all sorts of post-hoc adjustments of their initial public reactions to the Covington High School incident. I’m going to engage in a tiny bit of smug here, because I neither had nor offered any knee-jerk response to the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 21, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
If you are a regular consumer of political news, or if you are on social media and have some politically minded likes and friends, you’ve no doubt heard the outrageous story about the MAGA hat wearing Catholic high school student confronting a Native American at...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 20, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
In a recent interview with Ben Shapiro, political columnist Heather Mac Donald skewered some college kids’ pursuit of ever-more-granularized identity group badges: … all the various gender identities that are being rapidly crafted by desperate students who...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 19, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
As we close out the fourth week of the government shut-down, with negotiations seemingly non-existent and replaced by petty, tit-for-tat squabbles between Trump and Pelosi, it seems apt to contemplate the potential loss of a golden opportunity for the Democrats on the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 10, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
The two years since Trump’s election have done little to abate the bleating about the Electoral College, the Senate, the over-representation of smaller states in Congress, and other such folderol. Indeed, the newly-drunk-with-power House Democrats have...
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