by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 14, 2019 | Health, Politics
The Democrats recently had another debate, their first with their ten front-runners all on the same stage. I had little interest (as usual) in hearing three hours of droning on how we need more government for everything. But, I was hosting a group of friends, and some...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 12, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Yesterday, on the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the New York Times posted and deleted an odd tweet: 18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center. Today families will once again gather and grieve at the site where more...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 6, 2019 | Guns
Erstwhile progressive darling Beto O’Rourke recently sought to jump-start his going-nowhere presidential campaign with a Hail Mary declaration that, if elected President, he’d ban “assault weapons”: Americans who own AR-15s, AK-47s, will have...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 30, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
An innocuous “memory” was offered by Facebook this morning. I chuckled at it – it was a “throwaway” comment about a moment I had on a vacation a number of years ago – and was about to re-share. Then, I paused. Was this harmless...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 6, 2019 | Immigration, Politics
We adapted to World War Two by training up an army nearly from scratch. We built a Navy of globe-spanning capability in short order. We created a new intelligence institution that performed better than its professional replacement. With tools adapted to the need, we...
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