by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 9, 2016 | Culture, Politics
It has been a terrible week. In Louisiana, a black man selling CDs was killed by two white police officers as they sought to arrest him. In Minnesota, a black man pulled over for a traffic stop was killed by a police officer after the man informed the officer that he...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 6, 2016 | Election, Politics
By now, the news that Hillary Clinton got a pass on her email server wrongdoings has filtered into the forebrain of everyone who pays any attention to the news. The reaction from the Right has been predictable and generally justified, with a widespread lament that FBI...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 6, 2016 | Election, Politics
A neighbor of mine, a Trump supporter who tends to be quieter than the blustery liberals I also call neighbors, has long been hoping that Clinton would not be indicted. His reasoning, which I have now seen echoed all over the news and blogosphere, was that Clinton is...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 30, 2016 | Drug Policy, Guns, Politics
A recent conversation I had about guns and gun policy crossed the increasingly common argument that pro-gun people are simply saying that gun crime and mass shootings are a price they’re willing to pay in order to keep their guns. I’d call this a straw...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 29, 2016 | Election, Guns, Opinion, Politics
Yesterday’s Benghazi report (well, reports – there’s a Republican version and a Democratic version) coupled with a conversation I had with a neighbor brought to light an interesting paradox about our modern, information-rich society. Despite having...
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