by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 19, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
I live in the New York City metro area, which means I’m surrounded by people of a left-of-center political persuasion. 80% of New York City voters voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, and for Clinton in 2016. While there are pockets of Republicans here and there...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 18, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley recently stoked the flames of identity politics, and riled a number of her more moderate Democratic brethren, with a jaw-dropper of a proclamation: If you’re not prepared to come to that table and represent that voice, don’t...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 15, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
Yesterday’s big news in the entertainment world was the revelation that James Bond is being retired. Not Daniel Craig, who succeeded Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, and Pierce Brosnan in the role, but James Bond himself....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 13, 2019 | Culture, Election, Environment, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Bill De Blasio, mayor of New York for another two and a half years, then (thankfully) term-limited into the history books and (hopefully) ignominious obscurity, is continuing his (farcical) quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination by engaging in rhetoric...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 11, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
Pop singer Ariana Grande is on the cover of this month’s Vogue, and, naturally, some folks have found something to complain about. Apparently, at least a few think that a deliberate effort to darken her skin color was made, presumably to look “black”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 6, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
Many times, I’ve come across arguments positing that morality cannot exist without religion, and variants thereof that assert that the tenets of Western law and civilization are themselves born of religious teachings (aka The Ten Commandments in the Public...
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