by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 24, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
If we’ve learned one thing from the first seven months of Joe Biden’s presidency, it’s that there seems to be no “bottom” to incompetence in American politics. Eight years of Obama-induced malaise and divisiveness ushered in the...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 16, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
Our Afghanistan project has failed. The Afghan National Army (ANA) has disintegrated, and as we leave, the Taliban fill the vacuum with breathtaking speed. What went wrong? The basic explanations are the only ones necessary. The first is that their holy book teaches...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 28, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
I recently dubbed “great” the it-word of the day. That proclamation served my thoughts of that moment, but does short shrift to the tomes worth of other it-words and phrases that relentlessly assault our eyes and ears in these modern, turbulent times. One...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
A couple decades back, I briefly dated a British woman who, in a political conversation whose specific subject is lost to memory, voiced the phrase: Because we’re smarter than they are. That, as opposed to the particulars of our discussion, seared itself in my...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Day in and day out, I’m informed that America’s leftists (they are not liberals, and I shall no longer soil that word by association) are not Marxist, or communists, or old-school socialists, or even fascists. Day in and day out, I’m scolded about...
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