Pigs and Sheep A Libertarian Blog

Anatomy of a Gun Bill

by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 3, 2018 | Guns, Politics

California, a state that used to actually have some modicum of respect for gun owners (decades ago), has become (no surprise, given its leftward lurch) the land of a steady stream of gun-rights infringements in recent years. A proposal for a tax on the sale of all...

The Freedom To Leave

by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 26, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Taxation

In some of the (many) arguments about socialism in which I’ve engaged, its defenders point at the successes of communes and kibbutzes as “proof” that socialism can work and as a refutation to my assertion that it is always doomed to fail. There are...

The Exhausted Majority

by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 20, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics

A major piece in the Atlantic, and a related article at ABC News, point to an emerging problem for the Left: Their identity politics narrative isn’t working out for them. The Atlantic article offers some revealing statistics: 25% of Americans are “devoted...

Totalitarian Rapture

by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 18, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics

I had an odd little conversation with someone on the Internet a couple days ago, one where my counterpart actively defended socialism and communism as worthy ideals. Normally, such dialogues go a standard “it simply hasn’t been done right” path,...

Absolutism And The Somalia Straw Man

by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 7, 2018 | Economics, Opinion, Politics

If you’re a libertarian, you’ve heard this before. If you’re a reflexive basher of libertarianism who lurks in libertarian neighborhoods, you’ve probably used it. If you’re neither, well, read on… A libertarian Facebook page...