by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 15, 2016 | Culture, Education, Opinion
I caught a recent interview between magician Penn Jillette and libertarian journalist Nick Gillespie (and broke my no-listening rule because I wanted to hear Penn’s thoughts on Trump, given his extensive first-hand contact with him). The interview ranges far and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 8, 2016 | Election, Politics
Donald Trump said some vulgar things a decade ago. In the grand traditions of “three can keep a secret if two are dead” and “always assume a microphone is live,” his words have come back to haunt his campaign. Everyone is outraged, the GOP...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 5, 2016 | Election
Someone sent a copy of Donald Trump’s 1995 tax return to the New York Times. The Times then shared it with the world. This particular year’s return included a nearly one billion dollar write-off, and the write-off and the embarrassment/outrage it might...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 4, 2016 | Drug Policy
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is a follow-up to The Drug War Claims Another Victim America’s prohibition regime of certain sorts of drugs has never been called for by a medical consensus. It has never been based on application of the principles of addiction...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 22, 2016 | Election, Politics
Hillary Clinton recently claimed, in rather incendiary language, that ISIS would rather have Trump elected President than her. Her suggested reason is that Trump will be a “a recruiting sergeant for the terrorists.” This is both too clever by half and...
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