by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 19, 2017 | Featured, Opinion, Politics
The vast majority of political argument is casual, and as such is often loaded with tricks, logical fallacies, emotional ploys, and gamesmanship. Such don’t serve to prove one’s argument so much as to get the other side to yield, withdraw or go silent....
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 21, 2016 | Culture, Environment
A common and long-running theme among statist big thinkers is that people are having too many babies and thereby overtaxing the planet. We first heard such negativity from Thomas Malthus nearly 250 years ago, but have yet to witness the famine and resource depletion...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 2, 2016 | Politics
If you ask Democrats and liberals who are still in shock over the Trump victory about their feelings since November 8th, you’ll find many who cite fear as their biggest emotion. Fear for the future of the country. Fear of losing so many of the gains their side...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 22, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Of all the freedom writers, it so happens that your author is probably the only one with two actual experiences of fires in movie theaters. The first was at Star Wars episode One. About halfway in, I went to the lobby, and found the popcorn machine’s butter...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 13, 2016 | Opinion, Politics
Political campaigns, like advertising campaigns, can live and die with slogans, sound bites and catch-phrases. They also, increasingly, engage in battles over the meanings of particular words and phrases. Consider the argument over what Bernie Sanders’...
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