by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 30, 2019 | Economics, Opinion, Politics
There is a range of estimates on what we’ve spent on the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Seven trillion dollars is a ballpark figure (what’s a trifling trillion or two nowadays?). By the time all the veterans get the care they are due, we might add as much as...
by Karl Wright | Oct 29, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
I’ve had occasion several times over the last three years to wonder why the Left, American and not just American, hates Donald Trump with a level of passion so intense that they’re perfectly willing to bring the United States to its knees to get rid of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 28, 2019 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Four years ago, I lamented the coercive homogenization of how we think that was born of the morphing of “political correctness” into “propaganda compliance.” Part of that lament was the emergence of an internecine battle between feminists and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 26, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
I recently finished binge-watching Red Oaks, a very pleasant comedy set in and around a New Jersey country club in the mid-late 1980s. Those of a certain age will remember that was the era of the emergence of Japanese business as a global powerhouse, and of American...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 23, 2019 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
Consider the word “ignorance.” Ignorance is, simply put, lack of knowledge or information. It differs from stupidity, or idiocy, or foolishness, in that it’s not a descriptor of a person, but merely of the information that a person possesses. As...
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