by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 1, 2018 | Economics, Immigration, Politics
After a couple years of constant exposure to Trump’s speeches, statements, off-the-cuff remarks and, especially, tweets, it behooves the prudent observer to avoid taking every word literally… AND, to avoid waving off everything he says as “serious...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 29, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
I was recently “evicted” from a closed political group on Facebook. It was both amusing and sad, because it was a group I belonged to for years, a group where I had made a good number of Internet friends, and a group born of the foundational site of my...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 26, 2018 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
What if I told you that Trump’s greatest asset, the most powerful tool in his arsenal, was not his Twitter account, or his brook-no-criticism supporters, or the swathes of Middle America that feel abandoned by the political and cultural elite, but rather the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
One of the greatest frustrations for libertarians and others who believe that principles matter lies in the all-too-often witnessing of people who claim to stand on principle, but throw it out the window when it gives them an answer they don’t like. It’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 21, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
Among the countless postmortems, deconstructions, critiques, and diatribes of Trump’s meeting with Putin and all that happened thereafter appears this tidbit at Bloomberg. Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, is dubbed a “hero” by writer Eli...
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