by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 18, 2021 | Culture
There’s a litmus test applied by social justice types in their endless hunt for discrimination and oppression. It’s a simple one: they look at a profession, or an industry, or an economic stratum, or a town/neighborhood, or some other parseable segment of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 17, 2021 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
News outlets are reporting that electricity prices are spiking in Europe. Apparently, a lull in offshore winds is reducing windmill power output, causing a mad scramble to buy coal and gas to make up for the shortfall. Their best buddy Vladimir Putin is jacking up the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 2, 2021 | Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
America’s exit from Afghanistan is a monumental debacle born of a failure of leadership utterly breathtaking in its magnitude. Hundreds of Americans and perhaps tens of thousands of Afghan allies were abandoned to the predations of an emboldened Taliban in a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 31, 2021 | Economics, Opinion, Politics
Trump was right. Yes, that’s a cheap ploy to capture your attention, no matter if you love the guy, hate his guts, are sick and tired of all things Trump, or fall somewhere in between the poles of that triangular spectrum. What was he right about?...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 28, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
I recently dubbed “great” the it-word of the day. That proclamation served my thoughts of that moment, but does short shrift to the tomes worth of other it-words and phrases that relentlessly assault our eyes and ears in these modern, turbulent times. One...
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