by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 10, 2014 | Culture
Take a look at any large organization in the USA and you are certain to find statements and programs dedicated to promoting “diversity.” Look at those programs and read those statements and you are likely to find that “diversity” refers to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 21, 2014 | Culture, Politics
Pick a “social good” government initiative at random. Legislation and regulation directed at tobacco, at alcohol, at narcotics or psychotropics, at sugar, at trans-fats, at sodium, at obesity, at poverty – take your choice. Got one? Good. First,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 13, 2014 | Culture, Drug Policy, Opinion
Consider your “natural rights.” Jefferson codified these as “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” More specifically, your natural rights include all those listed in the Bill of Rights, plus rights that haven’t been enumerated...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 1, 2014 | Culture, Politics
Talk to a statist about his beliefs, and you will often hear the words “safety net” mentioned. Well, not so much mentioned as boldly, even aggressively declared, stated as a challenge, as an affirmation and declaration that theirs is the side of right,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 30, 2013 | Politics
One of the arguments being put forth by people from all over the left-right spectrum regarding the NSA’s broad collection of telephone data and “metadata” is that it’s essential to the War on Terror and to the security of the American people....
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