by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 10, 2016 | Drug Policy, Economics, Politics, Taxation
The murder of five police officers in Dallas, an atrocity rooted in the boiled-over tension between urban blacks and the police officers that watch over them, has created various firestorms of protest, counter-protest, and Internet virtue signaling (the last being the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 1, 2016 | Guns, Politics
Democratic Senator Lindsey Graham recently opined, during a press conference urging further restrictions on gun rights, that: every right Ñ whether speech or buying a weapon or any other constitutional right Ñ has boundaries on it Graham’s assertion was made in...
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...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 27, 2016 | Election, Politics
Stress tends to bring people’s true colors out, a truism observed by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy....
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