by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 4, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
The Democratic Party’s leftward lurch, led by Bernie Sanders’ heir-apparent, “it-girl” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has hit a few internecine bumps in the road of late, with AOC threatening to primary the “moderates” who aren’t...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 22, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Presidential election politics typically follow a predictable arc. Candidates throw their hats into the ring, offering up a litany of lip service to the party’s hard-core. This means feeding whatever “edge” views are in vogue among the politically...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 19, 2019 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Lynne Patton, the regional director of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, is planning to actually live, for a few weeks, in some of the buildings in her charge. This is newsworthy enough to be worth a blog post on its own, and I tip my hat to the...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 10, 2019 | Health, Opinion, Politics
EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay is the second in a series about the plight of street people and how our system mishandles them. The USA spends twice on healthcare what the next highest spender in the world does (with poor results). The healthcare industry is the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 8, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
Now that more and more people are throwing their hats into the Democratic presidential nomination ring, and now that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the “it-girl” of the Left’s political rhetoric, serious people are starting to question the...
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