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 Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 13, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
Much is being made of our “abandoning” Afghanistan (they abandoned us, when they did not “cowboy-up” to defend themselves, is how I see it). Well: Civilized world governments have a doctrine against assaults on human rights of the kind the...
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...
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...
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