by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 2, 2020 | Culture, Health, Opinion
There are times, in my blogging, that I am surprised by the degree of response to a particular topic. One such surprise was, and continues to be, the polarization around the wearing of masks in public places to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, the advocacy...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 28, 2020 | Culture, Politics
The Black Lives Matter protests, with their accompanying riots and all the sequels that brought them about, bring to the fore Leftist demands for fundamental changes to the American way of the classical liberal order. Let’s review what that order gained us, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2020 | Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
An interesting screed passed through my social media today. Interesting, not in a “hm, that makes good points” way, but in a “blindered by ideology” way. The author, Heather Cox Richardson, is a professor of history at Boston College, and a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 23, 2020 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
Six weeks ago, after roughly a week of clashes between protestors rallied by George Floyd’s killing and Seattle police, a six-block section of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood was ‘occupied’ and declared the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 22, 2020 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
There’s a public argument phenomenon that gun rights defenders and Second Amendment defenders are quite familiar with: “gotcha” questions written by the ill-informed. Step into any on-going debate over gun rights, and you’ll almost invariably...
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