by Peter Venetoklis | May 19, 2016 | Environment
Bjorn Lomborg, an environmentalist who is among those who suggest that there are more pressing issues in the world than AGW, was recently disinvited from speaking at an Australian university because some students made a bunch of noise. It exposes the group-think...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 6, 2016 | Environment
Drudge linked an amusing little ditty today that discusses how the effects of anthropogenic global warming aka climate change aka climate disruption aka climate catastrophe on rainfall turned out wrong. Yet another predictive failure is nothing out of the ordinary in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 9, 2016 | Economics, Opinion
In his farewell speech, President Eisenhower famously warned of the undue influence of the military-industrial complex on government and politics. Perhaps less famously, in his very next thought, he also cautioned about the growing domination of government funding in...
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 | Jun 6, 2015 | Opinion
Strong words, these are. They imply elements physical and psychological. As a guiding principle, they seem most apt for prisons or a totalitarian regimes. They were the motto posted at the TSA air marshal training center headquarters post 9/11. In-flight air marshals...
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