by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 3, 2016 | Election, Politics
A few weeks back, my internet perambulations brought me to a column about Donald Trump by Camille Paglia. Aside from her candid take on the GOP presidential candidate, what caught my eye were several letters and responses to letters regarding some comments that Paglia...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 3, 2016 | Culture, Election, Opinion
Way, way back in 1981, a then-40 years old Bernie Sanders, barely 6 months into his first elected gig as mayor of Burlington, VT, put forth a bit of stark honesty: I don’t believe in charities said Mayor Sanders, bringing a shocked silence to a packed hotel...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 20, 2016 | Election, Politics
In a recent in-depth and wide-ranging interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, President Obama made a statement that is catching flak from America’s European allies: Mr Obama also made clear that he forced Mr Cameron to sign up to Nato’s benchmark...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 15, 2016 | Election, Politics
The press continue to wring their collectiv(ist) hands over the popularity and ascendance of Donald Trump. Some question how they could have been so wrong in their prognostications that he’d have faded by now. Others either wonder at or openly deride the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 15, 2016 | Opinion
Most of us know people who resent others’ successes when they feel they’re smarter or more capable, and writer Nick Sorrentino shares a tale about a relative who recently exhibited such behavior. The attitude exhibited by his relative, who not only averred...
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