by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 27, 2015 | Election, Politics
… Or, the sordid one-two punch behind Trump’s popularity Donald Trump burst onto the GOP presidential primary scene with an in-your-face, plain-talking and purportedly anti-establishment/outsider message. He immediately surged into first place, holding a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 11, 2015 | Election, Politics
Thus goes the belief that a subset of Republican voters hold. They want the party to nominate and the voters to support the candidates who stand the best chance of beating their Democratic counterparts. They believe that majority control of Congress and control of the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 4, 2015 | Election, Politics
Donald Trump, he of the endlessly mockable combover and ad-nauseum-repeated tag line “You’re Fired!,” has confounded pundits left and right (and spawned numerous conspiracy theories) by leading the pack of GOP presidential candidates in the polls....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 30, 2015 | Politics
My morning perambulations around the Internet included a thread discussing what “libertarian” means in the context of foreign policy and a(nother) quiz that promised to place me on the political grid. The former is quite commonplace in libertarian circles,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 6, 2015 | Opinion
Strong words, these are. They imply elements physical and psychological. As a guiding principle, they seem most apt for prisons or a totalitarian regimes. They were the motto posted at the TSA air marshal training center headquarters post 9/11. In-flight air marshals...
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