by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 22, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Education, Election, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
My latest version of Internet “sport” consists of skimming social media comments sections under any article even vaguely skeptical of Critical Race Theory, to find the morons (with apologies to actual morons) who rush to obnoxiously inform all us...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 19, 2021 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Columnist Matt Taibbi, in a recent newsletter, lamented that columnists’ target audience has shifted from placid Sunday morning paper perusers to what he dubbed “rage addicts.” His comment was, in the end, self-deprecating and self-aware, but the...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 1, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The worst social unrest we have had since the Civil War was caused by the George Floyd race protests. It has cost the nation between one and two billion dollars. No progress on the issues that set them off has been made in over a year (an election year, at that)....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 30, 2021 | Immigration, Opinion, Politics
The *Best-and-Brightest (TM) in our society are driven, they will tell you, by a desire to act against injustice and in support of the oppressed. That they have to create and amplify divisions to accomplish this mission doesn’t seem to trouble them. While...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 28, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
It wasn’t that long ago that I lamented the government’s interference in a citizen’s attempt to feed her fellow humans who were struggling due to the COVID lockdowns. In a more recent story, a member of the Charlotte, NC City Council, Tariq Bokhari,...
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