by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 18, 2020 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics
This past December, a “good guy with a gun” stopped a mass shooting in a northeastern Texas town, putting (again) the lie to the anti-gun dismissiveness about civilians stopping crime. Right on cue, nanny-billionaire Mike Bloomberg chimed in with his...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2020 | Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
An interesting screed passed through my social media today. Interesting, not in a “hm, that makes good points” way, but in a “blindered by ideology” way. The author, Heather Cox Richardson, is a professor of history at Boston College, and a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 22, 2020 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
There’s a public argument phenomenon that gun rights defenders and Second Amendment defenders are quite familiar with: “gotcha” questions written by the ill-informed. Step into any on-going debate over gun rights, and you’ll almost invariably...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 12, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Health, Opinion, Politics
The CHOP (Capital Hill Occupation Protest) in Seattle, has come and gone (to the surprise of no one). What can be learned? Mainly: The United States of America is actually the most socialist country in the world (the voluntary variant of socialism, that is). Until...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 8, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
When it comes to cautionary dystopian tales, most of us know the biggies. Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm (the latter proffering up this blog’s name) are the gold standard. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is another classic. More contemporary writers...
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