by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 22, 2014 | Culture, Guns
There was a video (now deleted) making the rounds of a CNN reporter demonstrating his ignorance regarding firearms, specifically, what an “automatic weapon” is. During a discussion about the Ferguson riots, reporter Don Lemon confused semi-automatic...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 20, 2014 | Culture
CEO compensation is a favorite bugbear among the class warriors, especially within the context of overall income disparity. I’ve seen people, with utter sincerity and great earnestness, propose capping CEO compensation to some multiple of the lowest paid...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 20, 2014 | Economics, Politics
• In Washington State, someone who wishes to braid hair for a living needs a cosmetology license. This license requires 1600 hours of education, not one hour of which involves braiding. This training requirement exceeds that required for emergency medical technicians...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 28, 2014 | Culture, Education
Part of adults’ obligations to the children they bring into the world is to prepare them for their own adulthood. This means that schooling and education should be about more than learning skills and facts and training the brain to think in certain ways....
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 9, 2014 | Politics
Consider four quotes from President Obama: I am elected by you. I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place. – April 2013 Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing...
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