by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 17, 2014 | Economics, Politics
As a brutal February rolls into a hopefully less brutal March, some of us start contemplating the spring planting season, with its promise of home-grown, straight-from-the-vine tomatoes. If you’ve never had a tomato straight off the vine, you’ve missed out...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 23, 2014 | Culture, Politics
… to Distrust the Government I was talking with my brother as he was sitting in traffic on the Belt Parkway one sunny Saturday afternoon, when he chimed in with “chemtrails.” He was being sarcastic, of course, amusingly associating the condensation...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 21, 2014 | Opinion, Politics
So Obama says, on the NSA and his “reforms.” So Obama says in his assurance that “no one is listening to your phone calls” despite their recording them all. So Obama says, on drone strikes, secret kill lists, and the authority he granted...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 3, 2014 | Politics
President Obama signaled in his SOTU address that his solution to the supposed obstructionism of the Republicans was to pursue his agenda unilaterally, invoking the (ever-increasing) power of the executive branch and the bureaucracy. The obvious part of that pursuit...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 30, 2013 | Politics
One of the arguments being put forth by people from all over the left-right spectrum regarding the NSA’s broad collection of telephone data and “metadata” is that it’s essential to the War on Terror and to the security of the American people....
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