by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 25, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
I had another of those “free markets suck” conversations the other day, one that evolved from conversations about supposed disparities in child mortality stats across nations, to socialized medicine, to the supposed failures of free markets in safeguarding...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
One of the greatest frustrations for libertarians and others who believe that principles matter lies in the all-too-often witnessing of people who claim to stand on principle, but throw it out the window when it gives them an answer they don’t like. It’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 22, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The word “equal” is a biggie in the American political landscape. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote “all men are created equal,” and explained his meaning by asserting that each of us has “certain unalienable Rights.” Unalienable is...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 21, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
Among the countless postmortems, deconstructions, critiques, and diatribes of Trump’s meeting with Putin and all that happened thereafter appears this tidbit at Bloomberg. Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, is dubbed a “hero” by writer Eli...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 16, 2018 | Culture, Immigration, Opinion
I will holler “Amen!” with the choir of much of the nation whenever President Trump is called a big fat meanie. He is. He’s an awful person. But that sentence might have been written the same way, minus President, if we are back in 1990 “Trump...
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