by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 20, 2014 | Economics, Politics
The Left’s recent frothing anger over the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision has been great fun for those of us who bothered to figure out its actual contents, given how ignorant so many of the protests and protestors have been. Apart from the humor, the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 14, 2014 | Culture
There was a tempest recently when it was revealed that Facebook had conducted a psychological experiment on several hundred thousand users, manipulating news feeds in order to assess emotional reactions. People were outraged, of course. Nowadays, people are outraged...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 10, 2014 | Economics, Politics
A recent book release by French Economist Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, has set the political blogosphere buzzing like an angry hornet’s nest. The book, which is a best seller but which is also trending to be amongst the least-read books...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 25, 2014 | Immigration
Way back when, in 2002, a science fiction series called Firefly premiered on Fox. It was the brainchild of writer/producer/director Joss Whedon, who has made a number of TV and movie hits. The show, which takes place about 500 years in the future, can be characterized...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 16, 2014 | Drug Policy, Immigration, Politics
I recently came across a rebuttal to the (my and others’) oft-stated opinion that the nation’s immigration laws and system are dysfunctional and broken. The rebuttal was, in short, “the laws are fine, they just need to be enforced.” Sounds...
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