by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 13, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Pop quiz. What do gun control, Planned Parenthood, and the minimum wage have in common? Got an answer? Now, add pot prohibition to the list. Does that change your answer? The essay title, of course, gave the answers away. The first three are high priority issues for...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 8, 2016 | Election, Politics
Donald Trump said some vulgar things a decade ago. In the grand traditions of “three can keep a secret if two are dead” and “always assume a microphone is live,” his words have come back to haunt his campaign. Everyone is outraged, the GOP...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 4, 2016 | Drug Policy
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is a follow-up to The Drug War Claims Another Victim America’s prohibition regime of certain sorts of drugs has never been called for by a medical consensus. It has never been based on application of the principles of addiction...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 26, 2016 | Election, Opinion
Politicians lie. We all know it, we all expect it. We’ve all heard the jokes. “How can you tell Politician X is lying? His lips are moving.” They also make promises they never intend to keep, they do everything they can not to answer questions that...
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....
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