by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 20, 2017 | Culture, Economics, Politics
How long is your commute? If you’re an average American, it’s about 26 minutes. While a few work from home, and our increasingly technological society suggests that number could grow and thus shrink the average, the overall trend has been moving in the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 19, 2017 | Featured, Opinion, Politics
The vast majority of political argument is casual, and as such is often loaded with tricks, logical fallacies, emotional ploys, and gamesmanship. Such don’t serve to prove one’s argument so much as to get the other side to yield, withdraw or go silent....
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 17, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
The war that is being waged between Donald Trump on one side and the unholy union of the Left and the Press on the other side escalated to another level this past week. The Left claimed a couple scalps, in the resignation of Michael Flynn and the withdrawal of Andrew...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 15, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
A couple months back, actor/producer Mark Ruffalo, a champion of liberal and social justice politics, caught a mountain of grief for a social justice “transgression.” His crime? Casting a cisgender actor as a transgender character. One might understand if...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 11, 2017 | Drug Policy, Politics
We thick-headed humans have learned little of power and mercy, even with many of us professing to love Jesus (who just asked us all to be nice and wise to each other). Ancient Greece seems to have a better handle on the Frankenstein-like true nature of force, making...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 9, 2017 | Politics
High dudgeon is in fullest exhibition following the Senate’s rebuking Elizabeth Warren for repeatedly violating a rule prohibiting “besmirching the character and motives” of a fellow Senator (Attorney General candidate Jeff Sessions). The Senator has...
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