by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 10, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
The two years since Trump’s election have done little to abate the bleating about the Electoral College, the Senate, the over-representation of smaller states in Congress, and other such folderol. Indeed, the newly-drunk-with-power House Democrats have...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 7, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics
A giant, ominous, sensationalizing headline on Drudge (shocking, I know) inadvertently punches a few well-deserved holes in a few long-running but fallacious/deflective narratives. For that, we might actually thank the repressive Saudis, who forced Netflix to...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jan 6, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
Impeachment is in the air. The Democrats, as they prepare to take up the House, promise a “cannon of subpoenas.” I’ve discussed the impeachment possibilities in President Trump’s many imbroglios here. Today, let’s take a look at other...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 4, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Taxation
In further validation of the notion that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” Christopher Rufo at City Journal informs us of the latest whiz-bang idea coming out of the homeless-advocacy camp is that of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 22, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics
I had a discussion with a friend the other day, about the safety net and the conflation of society with government. It was prompted by my recent blog post Capitalism Needs Poverty, wherein I refuted the title’s premise and asserted instead that “socialism...
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