by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 16, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 8, 2017 | Guns
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. “If not for the NRA, we’d have sensible gun regulation!” Some anti-gun arguments are just empty platitudes, ignorant of law and history...
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 | Feb 8, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Trump recently dropped a couple lulus that offer stark caution to the impulse many skeptics have had to soften their concerns. In full law-and-order mode, he put forth an assertion that the murder rate is the highest it’s been in 47 years. His claim is...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 1, 2017 | Featured, Opinion, Politics
Dear Democrats. Many of you are basing declaration of figurative war against Trump’s Supreme Court nomination, Neil Gorsuch, both pre- and post- announcement, on the Senate’s failure to confirm Obama’s nomination, Merrick Garland. Some of you are...
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