by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 29, 2016 | Politics
Most of us have some perceptions and beliefs that don’t match reality. One modern example is the actual percentage of the American population that is gay vs what people’s perception is. Gallup polls put the latter at around 1 in 4, when the reality is less...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 27, 2016 | Culture, Opinion
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick made recent headlines by choosing not to stand for the playing of the National Anthem before a game in which he participated. He offered his reasons for doing so, and the NFL has accepted his right not to stand. While...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 27, 2016 | Culture, Drug Policy, Opinion
PART I: The People’s Juice That an individual will cheat for glory tells us nothing new or interesting about the human condition. Aristotle, The Bible, and Shakespeare told us all about it before there was a “Western World” to have a conversation...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 26, 2016 | Election, Politics
It wasn’t all that long ago that Donald Trump used a brutally black-and-white, absolutist position on illegal immigration to distinguish himself from the rest of the GOP presidential hopefuls. Building a wall, deporting 11 million illegal immigrants (more than...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 25, 2016 | Economics, Politics
There’s a somewhat counter-intuitive idea bouncing around in libertarian circles nowadays – that of a “guaranteed minimum income.” It’s such a topic of conversation that Google’s fourth suggestion upon offered those three words is...
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