by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 21, 2017 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Socialized medicine advocates argue their case from angles both moral and practical. Their moral case, that civilized societies take care of their weak and needy, suffers from two major flaws: it conflates “society,” i.e. you and me and that which we do...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 8, 2017 | Guns
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. “If not for the NRA, we’d have sensible gun regulation!” Some anti-gun arguments are just empty platitudes, ignorant of law and history...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 15, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
A couple months back, actor/producer Mark Ruffalo, a champion of liberal and social justice politics, caught a mountain of grief for a social justice “transgression.” His crime? Casting a cisgender actor as a transgender character. One might understand if...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 11, 2017 | Drug Policy, Politics
We thick-headed humans have learned little of power and mercy, even with many of us professing to love Jesus (who just asked us all to be nice and wise to each other). Ancient Greece seems to have a better handle on the Frankenstein-like true nature of force, making...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jan 25, 2017 | Culture, Drug Policy
As will increasingly be a question: the great baseball players whose careers coincided with the peak of the steroid era are being considered for admission into the Hall of Fame. Are they worthy? Like any debate on ethics, the answers are clear to child’s logic...
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