by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 12, 2017 | Election, Opinion, Politics
A recent Internet perambulation brought to me an interesting assertion (can’t find it now, so I paraphrase and declare it’s not my own): Trump managed to turn the football-kneeling matter from a vague social protest into an overtly partisan issue. By...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 5, 2017 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics
The mass shooting in Las Vegas continues its hold on front pages and social media platforms, and the killer’s motives remain stubbornly unknown and mysterious. Since nature abhors a vacuum, and since this atrocity is tailor-made for the “do...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 4, 2017 | Guns
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. “We must close the gun show loophole!” Most of us have heard the adage “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” but how many of us...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 4, 2017 | Guns, Politics
Do you think Trump’s a fascist? Did you despise the Patriot Act? Do you distrust the police and other government law enforcement? Do you support Black Lives Matter? Do you side or sympathize with with Antifa? Do you believe The Handmaid’s Tale is a...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Sep 27, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
Riot, public insurrections, activism: the definitions are as debatably charged as the modern hyper-prisms people look at politics through in this day and age, so henceforth, I’m referring to these things as “events.” Before we parse event factors or merits...
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