by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 2, 2018 | Guns, Politics
In a textbook combination of “late to the party” and “seize the moment,” a number of our liberal politicians have suddenly gone nonlinear over 3D printed guns. Their histrionics would be laughable if they weren’t so insidious, because...
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 31, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Health
Another summer day, another kid’s lemonade stand gets shut down by the government. This time, in upstate New York, where a 7 year old and his dad had the temerity to undercut the prices posted by vendors at a fair. Somebody narced out the kid, the health...
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 25, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
I had another of those “free markets suck” conversations the other day, one that evolved from conversations about supposed disparities in child mortality stats across nations, to socialized medicine, to the supposed failures of free markets in safeguarding...
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