by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 19, 2017 | Health, Opinion, Politics
The sordid saga of the Republican Party’s attempts to do something about ObamaCare closed a chapter yesterday. Party leadership threw in the towel on both repeal and replacement, and I presume will move on to the next big legislative item (tax reform). Depending...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 14, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Trump’s victory last November has been the subject of more analysis than most of us can even fathom. The list of possible reasons range from the mundane to the conspiratorial to the bizarre, and, depending on one’s perspective, represent everything from...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 11, 2017 | Culture, Politics
A funny thing happened in Poland. Donald Trump gave a good speech, one that highlighted an element of his appeal to those who voted for him. He spoke in glowing terms of Western values and society, and their roots in individual liberty. Hold on – that’s...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 6, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Part 4 – The Tally…. This series of articles argues that Woodrow Wilson is the transformational political figure of the Twentieth Century. Draw the arc from the world of 1917 to the world of 2017 and see there is no other visionary who did more to make...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 6, 2017 | Drug Policy, Guns, Health, Politics
A bad man uses a gun to inflict harm on others, and, as sure as Pavlov’s dog salivating at the ringing of a bell, the usual scolds decry the insufficiency of the laws meant to prohibit bad men from getting guns. The lament is typically combined with contempt for...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 23, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Amid the deluge of terms and ideas pouring out of the culture wars and social justice movement, we find certain ones that stand out. One of these is the concept of intersectionality. Google offers us this definition: the interconnected nature of social categorizations...
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