by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 17, 2018 | Culture, Guns, Opinion
Part 1 Of A Two-Part Look At the Parkland Mass Shooting Another horrific school shooting. Followed, as usual, by instant outrage, virtue signaling, finger-pointing, and “do-something” demands, all before facts and circumstances become known. Some scream at...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 9, 2018 | Economics, Opinion, Politics
Last night, after an obviously quixotic “make a grand but futile gesture” filibuster by Senator Rand Paul that caused a blink-and-you-missed it government “shutdown,” Congress passed a big fat spending increase, one that gave both the...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 8, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
The obstructing ink of our politicos is thicker than ever, the darting evasions harder to follow, in figuring all of the misconduct from all the actors in the fiasco that was the 2016 Presidential election. The principal charge leveled in my recent article on the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 31, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
One basic rule of logical debate tells us that anecdotes are not data, and that setting policy based on singular instances is a bad idea. Much to Sheldon Cooper’s dismay, however, we are not a planet of Vulcans, where Spock-like logic and emotional detachment...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jan 24, 2018 | Immigration, Opinion
Begin with the usual modern-media ablution: in denouncements of Donald Trump I yell “Amen!” as loudly as anyone. I believe it’s outrageous to call any country a “shithole.” My ancestors came from Germany (lookin’ at you Drumpf) and...
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