by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 14, 2019 | Culture, Environment, Politics
CNN contributor Bakari Sellers recently opined that: Climate change should be a definitive issue for Black voters, but it isn’t. He went on to blame the whiteness of environmental activist groups. He has a point… sort of. A survey by The Atlantic found that...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 8, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
It should be a difficult thing to go to war. The decision to engage the nation’s military in a conflict, where death and destruction are not only certain, but the actual goal, should never be taken lightly or casually. And, I’m sure that our leaders, past...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 23, 2019 | Culture, Drug Policy, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
When Donald Trump ran for office, there was nothing unusual about our illegal immigration issue. The height of the problem, such as it ever was, happened in 2005. We had less of an issue with illegal migration when the borders were unenforced. Then, migrant workers,...
by Karl Wright | Jun 6, 2019 | Economics, Politics
EDITOR’S NOTE: This guest post is a companion to the recently published Robbing Mattresses. I’m sure you’ve heard the narrative. The wealthy just get wealthier, and the poor just get poorer. Without massive government intervention, perhaps even a...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 3, 2019 | Culture, Politics
It’s right there in the opening credits. The mechanisms of power, the institutions, the gears, are everything. By the time Game of Thrones (GoT) wound down, it was quite clear that the “wheel,” which Daenerys Targaryen devoted her life to breaking,...
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