by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 24, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Consider this reaction to the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal: ‘if he were black, he’d be in jail.’ Such a sentiment was voiced by many on the Left when they heard “not guilty on all counts.” Let’s look past the blind partisanship...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 23, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
About two and a half years ago, New York State, in a paroxysm of progressive beneficence, overhauled its cash bail system for those accused of crimes. For the past couple years, only those accused of violent felonies were required to post bail. The rest were simply...
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 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
This morning’s Wall Street Journal 10-Point included this tidbit: Royal Dutch Shell plans to consolidate its dual-share structure and move its headquarters to London to help it navigate the transition to low-carbon energy. It should be obvious to anyone who...
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...
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