by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 9, 2015 | Economics, Politics
Just a few weeks before I was born, Lyndon Baines Johnson gave his first State of The Union address since becoming President upon the death of John F. Kennedy. The full text of the address is a fascinating read, especially within the context of LBJ’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 29, 2015 | Culture, Health, Not Politics
A friend and former employee who has gone all-in on healthy living and all things natural has been sharing a variety of links and news stories with me of late – stories decrying GMO foods, Big Pharma, chemotherapy and Monsanto as the greatest evils of modern...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 1, 2015 | Culture, Environment, Health, Politics
I came across an interesting observation on a political page yesterday. The commenter asked why it seemed that the people most certain that the science of global warming was settled and irrefutable were oftentimes vocally anti-vaccine and anti-GMO. At first blush, it...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 20, 2014 | Culture, Politics
The recent release of a report on the CIA’s interrogation of suspected terrorists has brought quite a spectacle to the political blogosphere. The report, its obvious political purpose notwithstanding, has served a useful unintended purpose: it has exposed to the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 19, 2014 | Politics
Elizabeth Warren, senior senator from Massachusetts, academic, lawyer, and possibly of slight Native American heritage, set both ends of the left-right spectrum astir with a recent speech in which she list eleven commandments of progressivism. Many adore her and see...
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