by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 8, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
George Floyd’s killer, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, has a history that reminded me of an incident and individual from my days working as a paramedic for the FDNY in Brooklyn. My partner and I were dispatched to a developing riot. As we turned across...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 5, 2020 | Guns, Health, Politics
The riots (and more germanely, the looting) that have come to dominate the George Floyd story have added to a societal paradigm shift initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns. People’s easy complacency about daily life is being shattered, and...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 4, 2020 | Culture, Health, Politics
I have friends in the NYPD who describe to me constantly being approached by “youths” that make a finger gun at them and say something like “turn your back on me, piggie, and see what you get.” A lot of the cops have strapped on extra guns...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 17, 2020 | Culture, Guns, Health, Politics
The fine folks over at Reason just rebutted the ‘snarky’ crisis-conclusion being peddled by left-leaning sources that there are no libertarians in a pandemic. They pointed out that we are witnessing the waiving of rules and regulations in order to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 12, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
A discussion prompted by yesterday’s blog post, which recounted, among other things, how Joe Biden used the ‘fire in a crowded theater’ trope to justify gun restrictions, led to a suggestion that the trope be retired. I disagreed then, and still do,...
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