by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 21, 2016 | Election, Opinion, Politics
As sure as water is wet, a presidential election trots out the “wasted vote” bullies. Any time someone declares intent to vote for a minor party candidate, a demonic chorus of dyspeptic partisans chants a hymnal full of of hackneyed hosannas in response....
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 20, 2016 | Election
Fans of professional sports understand momentum, the unquantifiable sense that a team has taken charge of a game. There are times when we can feel the beginning of a comeback or a sense of inevitability that’s not yet reflected on a scoreboard. The other team...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 18, 2016 | Culture, Guns, Opinion
An American woman set a record at this year’s Olympic games. She became the first woman and the first summer Olympian to medal in six consecutive Olympics. Only one other athlete in the entire history of the Games has matched this feat (an Italian man who...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 13, 2016 | Election, Opinion
This election is the gift that just keeps on giving. Just as the endless drip-drip-drip of the Hillary Clinton email scandal has finally saturated us, as we finally been shown enough to recognize that she and hers lied, repeatedly, and deliberately worked to hide that...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Sep 12, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Opinion
The Government Hand That Feeds It is well enough known that the Nazis innovated the modern Olympic iconography: the torch ceremony, the photogenic mass fandom in the monumental stadiums braying for reflected national glory. If they discovered what looks good to the...
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