by Peter Venetoklis | May 7, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
There’s an old gag I used to try on some of my more gullible friends in times past. Should gullibility ever come up, mention “did you know that the word gullible is not in the dictionary?” The goal, obviously, is to get them to look it up (and its...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 4, 2017 | Culture, Health, Opinion
The transgender “controversy,” for want of a better word, has seemed to me very much a tempest in a teapot, an issue that’s resolvable by basic free market forces and basic courtesy, and that has been used as a source of deliberately excessive...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 21, 2017 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Socialized medicine advocates argue their case from angles both moral and practical. Their moral case, that civilized societies take care of their weak and needy, suffers from two major flaws: it conflates “society,” i.e. you and me and that which we do...
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 24, 2017 | Culture, Featured, Opinion
Sound the alarms! In just a couple decades, life expectancy in America will be no better than in that third-world, brown-person hellhole, Mexico!! That last bit is sarcasm, of course. Mexico has been doing very well for herself and her people, and could do even better...
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