by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 27, 2016 | Economics, Politics
One summer, way back when I was in my mid teens, my family went on vacation to Greece, where both my parents were born. One night, on my father’s home island, we went to visit one of my father’s childhood friends, who now owned and operated one of the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 17, 2016 | Culture
When terrorists struck Paris last November, my Facebook feed filled up with people putting the French flag over their avatars. When gay marriage was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court, my feed was full of rainbows. Every so often, I get a chain letter or see...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 6, 2016 | Election, Politics
The Economist reports that ISIS has established a strong foothold in the city of Sirte, which is in the middle of Libya’s Mediterranean coastline. ISIS reportedly controls about 180 miles of that coastline, centered on Sirte, and has 5000 fighters active there....
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 1, 2016 | Culture
The evolutionary biologist and noted atheist Richard Dawkins was caught up in a brouhaha after sharing on his Twitter feed a link to a video that mockingly depicts a commonality between the beliefs of Islamists and feminists. Dawkins’ tweet included the comment...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 14, 2015 | Guns
The recent San Bernadino shootings spawned an interesting twist on the long-running debate about gun ownership and gun violence. It didn’t just rekindle the gun debate in the liberal press, it stoked that fire and fanned those flames to unprecedented levels. The...
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