by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 31, 2018 | Culture, Drug Policy, Guns, Opinion
When a drunk driver kills someone, we blame and punish the driver. When a drug dealer kills someone, we blame and punish the dealer. When a husband attacks his wife, we blame the husband. When a bomb explodes, we blame the bomber. When someone gets stabbed with a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 30, 2018 | Politics
The Constitution is a remarkable document, in conception, in purpose, in brevity, and in clarity. It is one of the great achievements in the entirety of human history. Unfortunately, since it is written in words, it is subject to the meanings assigned to those words....
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 19, 2018 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
This week, President Trump banned bump stocks, devices used to enable a semi-automatic rifle such as an AR-15 to simulate full-automatic operation. Not Congress. Not a passel of anti-gun Democrats and/or a cohort of squishy Republicans. President Trump, who has long...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 3, 2018 | Guns, Politics
California, a state that used to actually have some modicum of respect for gun owners (decades ago), has become (no surprise, given its leftward lurch) the land of a steady stream of gun-rights infringements in recent years. A proposal for a tax on the sale of all...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 26, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
In some of the (many) arguments about socialism in which I’ve engaged, its defenders point at the successes of communes and kibbutzes as “proof” that socialism can work and as a refutation to my assertion that it is always doomed to fail. There are...
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