by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 16, 2021 | Economics, Election, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
There will come a day, though it might not come for a long time, when Trump’s presidency is assessed rationally rather than emotionally. When the tweets and rhetoric have faded to irrelevance and insignificant footnote, and the focus placed on policies and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 2, 2021 | Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
America’s exit from Afghanistan is a monumental debacle born of a failure of leadership utterly breathtaking in its magnitude. Hundreds of Americans and perhaps tens of thousands of Afghan allies were abandoned to the predations of an emboldened Taliban in a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 27, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
Not that long ago, right after Trump shocked the civilized world by defeating Herself in an election that she and all those adults figured would be a rubber-stamp of her turn at the wheel, many sky-screamers sought to comfort their aggrieved fragilities by assuming...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 24, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
If we’ve learned one thing from the first seven months of Joe Biden’s presidency, it’s that there seems to be no “bottom” to incompetence in American politics. Eight years of Obama-induced malaise and divisiveness ushered in the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
A couple decades back, I briefly dated a British woman who, in a political conversation whose specific subject is lost to memory, voiced the phrase: Because we’re smarter than they are. That, as opposed to the particulars of our discussion, seared itself in my...
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