by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 19, 2019 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Lynne Patton, the regional director of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, is planning to actually live, for a few weeks, in some of the buildings in her charge. This is newsworthy enough to be worth a blog post on its own, and I tip my hat to the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 18, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
A friend recently took his kids (three girls and a boy) to see the new Lego movie, and then dropped me a text linking this Slate article. The article, which he affirmed as accurate, discusses how the movie portrays an alternative to the boundaries set by traditional...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 16, 2019 | Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Much hay was made about how Nancy Pelosi got the better of Trump when he agreed to end the government shut-down a few weeks ago without getting his wall money. That was a bit premature, since all they did was kick the can down the road a couple weeks. It’s now a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 15, 2019 | Culture, Environment, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
An article over at Forbes attempts to answer the question “why don’t greens and progressives embrace nuclear power as a solution to global warming?” Some who actually think about things do, but they are few, and they are typically ignored. The...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 10, 2019 | Health, Opinion, Politics
EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay is the second in a series about the plight of street people and how our system mishandles them. The USA spends twice on healthcare what the next highest spender in the world does (with poor results). The healthcare industry is the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 9, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
This past Sunday, the New England Patriots disappointed most of the nation by winning their sixth Super Bowl, all with Tom Brady at quarterback. For the first time in I don’t know how long, I didn’t watch the game. Something about it all just didn’t...
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