by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 16, 2020 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
Joseph Epstein, a writer, essayist, and “visiting lecturer in literature and writing at Northwestern University,” set off the kerfuffle of the day with an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal that offered a bit of unsolicited advice to the First...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 11, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Remember 2005? It wasn’t that long ago. George W. Bush started his second term in office. The Iraq War entered its third year. Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became Iraq’s President, and pressed forward with a nuclear program...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 6, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Election, Health, Opinion, Politics
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth of a recurring (and highly irregular) series of quick-hits. Because, not everything needs a thousand words. Thanks for reading! Biden’s Mask Duplicity President-Elect Joe Biden has informed us of one element of his...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 3, 2020 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
New York City’s five boroughs are a rather diverse group. Each has its own character, and each produces a distinct breed of New Yorker. Even the two that share a land border – Brooklyn and Queens – have different “feels” and different...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 2, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Every so often, a new word becomes de mode in the political sandbox. While the metastasizing social justice movement has provided a veritable deluge of such, along with words to describe those words, oftentimes a “new” word is merely one being used in a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 14, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The New York Times, the Gray Lady, the former bastion of proper journalism, where legendary editor Abe Rosenthal maintained an iron wall between news and opinion, has become a full-on apparatus of the Democratic Party machine and leftist politics. In other news, water...
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