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A Message From The Editor…

A Message From The Editor…

by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 24, 2021 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Education, Election, Environment, Featured, Guns, Health, Immigration, Not Politics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation, Uncategorized

Friends and subscribers, in the interest of spreading the joys of liberty farther and wider, I’ve started publishing content on Substack. This site will remain active, but not carry all new content, so please, if you’ve enjoyed what you’ve read here,...
To Petition The Government

To Petition The Government

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...
The Left’s Frank Problem

The Left’s Frank Problem

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...
Whatever They Want

Whatever They Want

by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 26, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics, Taxation

“We probably will have a wealth tax,” said Nancy Pelosi on Sunday. The Democrats are in a mad scramble to cobble together a Frankenstein’s-monster tax-and-spend bill they’ve laughably labeled “Build Back Better.” They are reaping...
Rise of Conscience, Fall of Charity

Rise of Conscience, Fall of Charity

by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 23, 2021 | Culture, Education, Environment, Opinion, Politics

We are in the midst of a massive cultural awareness of race and racism that future historians might define as an “awakening” (or Marxists as an “expansion of consciousness”). In and of itself, this is not a bad thing. I have frank conversations...
Destroying America

Destroying America

by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 22, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Education, Environment, Opinion, Politics

The Art Institute of Chicago recently announced an end to its 60 years-running docent program. 122 volunteers, averaging more than 15 years experience, who gave “tours to millions, including more than 100,000 schoolchildren each year, many from the city’s mostly...
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