by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 3, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
A political friend shared a quote on social media today: “Liberals, I have heard it said, don’t care what we do as long as it is mandatory.” — Joseph Epstein This echoes a popular meme (and T-shirt, and other merchandise. A thumbs up for free...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 28, 2021 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
As promised (or as threatened, if you prefer), President Biden has made quick moves to advance the “greening” of America. Or, more accurately, to satiate the green lobby, an unholy alliance of ignorant virtucrats and corporate rent-seekers. He killed the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 26, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
While looking for the exact wording of a Stalin quote, I found this nugget on a Wikipedia page: [E]specially in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China and Pol Pot’s Cambodia, a fanatical certainty that socialism could be made to work motivated communist...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 19, 2021 | Election, Opinion, Politics
The Capitol riot is quite possibly the biggest gift the Democrats could have wished for, ahead of Biden’s inauguration. It will be used to vilify the entirety of the Republican Party and its voters, no matter how horrified they were at the riot, no matter how...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 11, 2021 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
The political and cultural aftermath of the Capitol riot is already upon us, with Big Tech opting to ‘cancel’ the Parler social media platform that has become a go-to refuge for conservatives and Trumpists unhappy with Twitter’s increasingly...
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