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 22, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The word “equal” is a biggie in the American political landscape. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote “all men are created equal,” and explained his meaning by asserting that each of us has “certain unalienable Rights.” Unalienable is...
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...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 6, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Education, Opinion, Politics
In the original illegal cross-country car race movie, The Gumball Rally, the Italian race car driver Franco, played with grand scenery-chewing excess by Raul Julia, informed the owner of the iconic Ferrari Daytona of “the first rule of Italian driving.”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 1, 2018 | Culture, Opinion
Political Correctness, we are told, is not the bogeyman that non-liberals often portray it to be. Rather, we are told, it’s merely civility, politeness, and respect for others writ large. Horse puckey. Political correctness, and its militant sibling, social...
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