by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 9, 2016 | Election, Featured, Politics
You did it! You lost the sure-thing. You handed victory to a candidate who couldn’t possibly win the Presidency of the United States. And you have no one but yourselves to blame for it. You had the perfect foil to run against, you had the press abandoning their...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 4, 2016 | Election, Politics
A long-time friend and former co-worker, back in my aerospace days, once lamented the reality of office and career politics, that he simply wanted to come to work and do his job without having to worry about all that stuff. The apt response is encapsulated by Yakov...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 1, 2016 | Election, Politics
By now, anyone with one eye half-open knows the Clinton campaign and Hillary Clinton herself are awash in lies, half-truths, opacity, misdirection, quid-pro-quo favoritism, pay-to-play pandering, influence peddling, tinkering and rigging of the electoral process (yes,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 30, 2016 | Culture, Election, Politics
There was a day, before on-demand, before Netflix, before Blockbuster Video, before even HBO, when missing a movie in it theatrical release meant you had to wait for the television networks to broadcast it. Since the networks were subject to FCC regulations and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 28, 2016 | Election, Opinion, Politics
The attached graphic popped up in one of my political pages today. It posits a suggestion I’ve seen repeatedly – that Trump’s campaign has been, all along, a grand conspiracy to ensure Clinton gets elected President. And, in some versions, to destroy...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 27, 2016 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
Richard Nixon is synonymous with Presidential crookedness in the USA. But this is more indicative of the political culture of the day than of Nixon’s offenses. In retrospect, Nixon’s political dirty tricks seem quaint compared to what goes on now. And...
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