by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 21, 2015 | Election, Guns, Politics
Some political issues have short lives. Some tend to linger, or pop up from time to time before fading to the background. Some are timeless, seemingly never resolved to the point where the players and partisans accept that an outcome has evolved. Among those is the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 11, 2015 | Culture
A recent interesting (and depressing) article over at Reason on the culture of victimhood mentions overstratification as a phenomenon of the modern PC culture. A writer over at The Daily Beast discusses sexual racism, the idea that having a sexual disinterest in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 3, 2015 | Health, Politics
One of the commonly used terms in the debate over birth control, abortion and other “reproductive health care services,” as such are dubbed, is access. Hillary Clinton used the term recently in a speech at the 2015 Women in the World Summit, where she was...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 6, 2015 | Opinion
Strong words, these are. They imply elements physical and psychological. As a guiding principle, they seem most apt for prisons or a totalitarian regimes. They were the motto posted at the TSA air marshal training center headquarters post 9/11. In-flight air marshals...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 5, 2015 | Culture
There was a shooting yesterday in Garland Texas. Two men who were allegedly offended by an intentionally provocative “Draw Mohammed” event showed up at that event with body armor, rifles and murderous intent. They exchanged fire with police and security,...
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