by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 20, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on 5 counts of homicide yesterday. Good. He should never have been charged in the first place. An arms-length assessment of the facts, once the fog of biased and tendentious reporting got cleared, made that obvious. To all but the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 18, 2021 | Culture, Education, Election, Opinion, Politics
There are many things the Government is empowered to do. There’s a list of them in the Constitution. A couple centuries of revision, a hundred-year-plus Progressive movement, and a few egregious moments of Supreme Court malpractice have expanded the list far...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 15, 2021 | Culture, Opinion
The act of scalping (the cutting off of a part of a victim’s scalp as a trophy, not the act of reselling event tickets at a large markup) has been part of human history for thousands of years, and only fell out of practice in the past century or two. It’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 14, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Ponder this bit, from an article about how identity politics has infiltrated archaeology: [T]he archaeologist Bruce Bourque recently published a lengthy essay on Quillette about his attempts to decipher the genetic identity of an ancient maritime New England tribe...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 12, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Most of you know the story. Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17 year old resident of Illinois (and , armed himself with an AR-15 variant and drove over to neighboring Kenosha, WI, during a period of protests and unrest following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police. Rittenhouse...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 5, 2021 | Culture, Education, Election, Opinion, Politics
Sixteen years ago, at the height of the George W. Bush presidency, columnist Thomas Frank published What’s The Matter With Kansas, wherein he basically posited that the Democrats lost the heartland because they didn’t focus sufficiently on promising...
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