by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 6, 2019 | Immigration, Politics
We adapted to World War Two by training up an army nearly from scratch. We built a Navy of globe-spanning capability in short order. We created a new intelligence institution that performed better than its professional replacement. With tools adapted to the need, we...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 5, 2019 | Culture, Guns, Health, Opinion, Politics
Two more mass shootings, and an entirely predictable spectrum of responses and proposed remedies from the usual sources. Politicians, both from the Rahm Emanuel angle and as a general rule, leap immediately to advance the solutions that fit their ideologies....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 29, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Playwright, auteur, and late-in-life conservative convert David Mamet referred to socialism as the abdication of responsibility. The resurgence of socialism in the American political landscape, itself born of the “childing” of age-of-majority youth via...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2019 | Politics
One of my best friends keeps lists. Not lists of to-do things, like one might imagine (although it’s safe to assume he has those as well), but inventory lists, including one that tallies every movie he’s ever seen. I do such lists, and they include musical...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2019 | Economics, Education, Election 2016, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
… To Love and Hate Allow me to offer a campaign platform: A nationalized health care system, funded and managed at the state/local level, with private health insurance purchaseable by those who want it. A transition to a privatized, defined-contribution Social...
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