by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 19, 2016 | Guns, Politics
Every time something really bad happens, people cry for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people. — Penn Jillette The President, the main stream press, liberals, and anti-gun folks (but, I repeat myself) have turned the Orlando...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 17, 2016 | Guns, Politics
Our human nature prompts us to react when confronted with a stressful action or situation. The fight-or-flight reaction is physiological, and thus we naturally seek some sort of measurable response when we witness a bad act or bad situation. So it goes with atrocities...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 16, 2016 | Culture, Guns, Politics
A man, born and raised in the Islamic faith, whose father was a vocal critic of America, a vocal supporter of the Taliban, whose faith not only calls homosexuality a sin but calls for its punishment, called 911 to pledge allegiance to ISIS, then walked into a gay bar...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 14, 2016 | Culture, Guns, Politics
In the first (brilliant) season of the HBO series True Detective, Detective Hart (played by Woody Harrison) cautions Detective Kohle (played by Matthew McConaughey) against letting predilections or presumptions interfere with rational analysis: You attach assumptions...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 1, 2016 | Culture
There was an altercation recently that involved a white college student at San Francisco State University and a black woman who confronted him about his dreadlocked hair. The woman, who is reportedly a campus employee, told the student, Cory Goldstein, that he...
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