by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 26, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The effort to change the way New York City’s elite public high schools admit students provides us not only with a window into the progressive’s world view, but also with some insight as to the demands placed on our culture’s “oppressed”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 23, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Let’s ponder a collection of choices: 1 – A nation commits to a “green” energy agenda, to combat global warming. It emphasizes and subsidizes wind and solar power generation. It starts shutting down coal plants. In doing so, it dismisses the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 21, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
The scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail between King Arthur and the anarcho-syndicalist filth farmers ends with Arthur calling Dennis a “bloody peasant.” Dennis then declares: Oh, what a giveaway. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? A raft of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 20, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Almost instantly after the devastating fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris captured world-wide attention, French (and other) billionaires started pledging large sums of money towards restoration. That was followed up by countless other pledges, large and small,...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 11, 2019 | Education, Opinion, Politics
Several seemingly unrelated policies being instituted in New York City illustrate the same cycle: the elimination of “color blind” testing for elite schools, the restricting of charter schools, and the restricting of smartphone ride-sharing. Their...
Loading ...
on We Condemn Bigotry, Except When We Celebrate It 9+
on Trump’s Bullies 7+
on Gun Rights Lesson #551 – Sensible Gun Regulation 6+
on Let The Squirming Begin 5+on Clinton The Bulletproof 5+
on Fact-Checking Trump 5+on Is the Earth’s Climate in Trouble? 4+
on Congratulations, Democrats! 4+
on Whence Morality? 4+
Active Comment Threads
Most Commented Posts
Universal Background Checks – A Back Door to Universal Registration
COVID Mask Follies
When Everything Is Illegal…
An Anti-Vax Inflection Point?
“Not In My Name”
The Great Social Media Crackup
War Comes Through The Overton Window
The First Rule of Italian Driving
Most Active Commenters