by Peter Venetoklis | May 6, 2021 | Culture, Drug Policy, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
It didn’t take America very long to figure out that alcohol prohibition was a bad idea. The Volstead Act, which took effect in 1920 to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, was repealed, via the Twenty-First Amendment, in 1933. Prohibitionists being who and what...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | May 4, 2021 | Culture
This was said by a pastor I know of, who will remain nameless. Why nameless, when he might claim credit for such elegant words of wisdom? Because even he is worried about race-denouncement, social media canceling, hounding, banishment from his social support circle,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 21, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Derek Chauvin got the book thrown at him yesterday, for killing George Floyd. Good. By accounts, he was a bad cop, with a bad track record, and he spent nine minutes suffocating to death someone he sought to arrest. The Left’s behavior and reaction to this all...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 18, 2021 | Culture, Education
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is a follow-up to We Expect Less Of You, wherein I opine on a university’s decision to de-emphasize good grammar and spelling. My father had an employee, decades back, who worked crazy hours at his restaurant. The man, whose...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 25, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The en-vogue social theory of modern times, when stripped of its various veneers, boils down to a simple concept: that there are oppressors and oppressed. Not individuals, mind you, but groups, aka classes, aka categories, aka “identities,” and our only...
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