by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 31, 2017 | Immigration, Politics
Donald Trump, proving yet again that, just when you think he’s reached the acme of outrage-inducement, gave a “these go to eleven” poke to the political beehive with his immigration ban. I disagree with the ban, for reasons I’ll go into at a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 10, 2017 | Guns
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. “No one’s trying to take your guns away, your gun rights are safe!” I most recently saw this assertion as a comment to a post by...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 5, 2017 | Politics
Had I written or uttered such a phrase before November 8, 2016, most of you would have laughed your asses off and mirthfully mocked me. It is quite the oxymoron. Yet, in another example of how the election of Donald J. Trump has turned corners of the political world...
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 | Nov 12, 2016 | Election, Politics
Like Opening Day of the baseball season, like the first weekend of the NFL season, the transition period between presidents is where we can embrace our highest hopes. Unlike sports, however, where acknowledgment that our team just doesn’t have the chops to win...
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