by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 24, 2015 | Culture, Politics
About three years ago, Masterpiece Cakeshop, a bakery in Colorado, refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple on the grounds that it violated the owners’ religious beliefs. The couple, rather than find another baker to hire, decided to file a complaint...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 14, 2015 | Politics
If I were to describe my work status nowadays, it would most succinctly be dubbed “semi-retired.” I have work that I must do, but it only occupies a couple hours a day and a couple days a week. I have work that I choose to do, that advances my business...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 12, 2015 | Election, Politics
I recently saw mention of the notion that Bernie Sanders’ supporters believe that cronyism (a core aspect of of our current government) can be remedied by the vigorous application of socialism. Both involve Big Government, i.e. substantial government involvement...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 30, 2015 | Politics
My morning perambulations around the Internet included a thread discussing what “libertarian” means in the context of foreign policy and a(nother) quiz that promised to place me on the political grid. The former is quite commonplace in libertarian circles,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 5, 2015 | Culture, Politics
George Takei, actor and political activist, ignited a furor recently when he excoriated Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over segments of the latter’s dissent in the recent Obergefell v Hodges case that recognized gay marriage as a right. Takei, who is gay...
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