by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 1, 2016 | Culture, Election, Guns, Opinion, Politics
The Cold War thriller The Hunt For Red October included a gracious exchange between the Soviet submarine captain (Marko Ramius, played by Sean Connery) and one of his officers (Vasili Borodin, played by Sam Neill). In it, Borodin mused on what he would do after they...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 31, 2016 | Guns
While the majority of the country has moved in a pro-gun-rights direction (41 states have Right-to-Carry/Shall-Issue laws or better, 11 of those have Constitutional Carry laws of some form), a handful of states have chosen to buck the tide and enact more restrictive...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2016 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
Thus spoke then-President George W. Bush a week after the 9/11 attacks. He was, of course, referring to the terrorists that perpetrated the attacks and radical Islam in general. This statement, lauded by some and mocked by others, endures, and will always be...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 10, 2016 | Drug Policy, Economics, Politics, Taxation
The murder of five police officers in Dallas, an atrocity rooted in the boiled-over tension between urban blacks and the police officers that watch over them, has created various firestorms of protest, counter-protest, and Internet virtue signaling (the last being the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 1, 2016 | Guns, Politics
Democratic Senator Lindsey Graham recently opined, during a press conference urging further restrictions on gun rights, that: every right Ñ whether speech or buying a weapon or any other constitutional right Ñ has boundaries on it Graham’s assertion was made in...
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