by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 8, 2017 | Politics
Or… Context Is Everything As Trump (via executive order) and Congress (via the Congressional Review Act) take tiny nibbles out of the vast Gordian knot that is our regulatory state, the usual suspects do what they usually do: caterwaul, bewail and gnash teeth...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 5, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Early last year, HBO offered up a new, expanded version of The Godfather I & II. Building on the idea behind the 1977 Godfather Saga, which presented the original two films in chronological order with some deleted scenes added back, the Godfather Epic runs a bit...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 21, 2017 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Socialized medicine advocates argue their case from angles both moral and practical. Their moral case, that civilized societies take care of their weak and needy, suffers from two major flaws: it conflates “society,” i.e. you and me and that which we do...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 17, 2017 | Politics
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article continues yesterday’s discussion of the irreconcilable disconnect between collectivist politics and human nature. Science fiction, the field of literature and entertainment that is freest to explore ideas that stand apart from...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 16, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside...
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