by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 10, 2017 | Culture, Economics, Environment
There’s a cute series of advertisements populating basic cable these days, offered by the Ad Council, that encourage us to recycle our plastic containers of various sorts. The ads anthropomorphize plastic bottles, if you can believe it, to make obvious and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 8, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Trump recently dropped a couple lulus that offer stark caution to the impulse many skeptics have had to soften their concerns. In full law-and-order mode, he put forth an assertion that the murder rate is the highest it’s been in 47 years. His claim is...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 3, 2017 | Guns
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. “We register cars and require driver’s licenses! We should regulate guns the way we regulate cars!” This argument is a hoot. The people...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 31, 2017 | Immigration, Politics
Donald Trump, proving yet again that, just when you think he’s reached the acme of outrage-inducement, gave a “these go to eleven” poke to the political beehive with his immigration ban. I disagree with the ban, for reasons I’ll go into at a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 28, 2017 | Economics, Politics
As the old gag goes, there are two types of people in the world: Those who divide people into two types and those who don’t. Modern identity politics will tell you that there are dozens upon dozens of types of people in the world, including at least sixty-three...
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