by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 10, 2021 | Culture, Opinion
Or… The Continuing Irrelevance Of The Individual Jussie Smollett was convicted yesterday of five felonies relating to his (can we omit the “alleged” now?) staging of a hate-crime attack upon himself. No one who took an honest look at the facts of the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 23, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
About two and a half years ago, New York State, in a paroxysm of progressive beneficence, overhauled its cash bail system for those accused of crimes. For the past couple years, only those accused of violent felonies were required to post bail. The rest were simply...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 20, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on 5 counts of homicide yesterday. Good. He should never have been charged in the first place. An arms-length assessment of the facts, once the fog of biased and tendentious reporting got cleared, made that obvious. To all but the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 14, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Ponder this bit, from an article about how identity politics has infiltrated archaeology: [T]he archaeologist Bruce Bourque recently published a lengthy essay on Quillette about his attempts to decipher the genetic identity of an ancient maritime New England tribe...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 26, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
“We probably will have a wealth tax,” said Nancy Pelosi on Sunday. The Democrats are in a mad scramble to cobble together a Frankenstein’s-monster tax-and-spend bill they’ve laughably labeled “Build Back Better.” They are reaping...
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