by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 8, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
It should be a difficult thing to go to war. The decision to engage the nation’s military in a conflict, where death and destruction are not only certain, but the actual goal, should never be taken lightly or casually. And, I’m sure that our leaders, past...
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...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 5, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
We witness, yet again, the horror of innocents going about their daily routines murdered en masse by a piece of human garbage. Twice in one day, in El Paso and Dayton. The history of such events cautions us to take our time in our pursuit of understanding, to avoid...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 6, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
Many times, I’ve come across arguments positing that morality cannot exist without religion, and variants thereof that assert that the tenets of Western law and civilization are themselves born of religious teachings (aka The Ten Commandments in the Public...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 23, 2019 | Culture, Drug Policy, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
When Donald Trump ran for office, there was nothing unusual about our illegal immigration issue. The height of the problem, such as it ever was, happened in 2005. We had less of an issue with illegal migration when the borders were unenforced. Then, migrant workers,...
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