by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 3, 2017 | Culture, Environment, Opinion, Politics
This week’s non-shocking news out of the White House centers on Trump’s decision to withdraw America from the Paris Climate Accord. It’s non-shocking in that it was a campaign promise, although in the realm of politics, perhaps it is a shock that a...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 29, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
The American Revolution was by no means a universally embraced dream, way back in its infancy in the mid-late 1700s. By John Adams’ estimation, preferences were divided somewhat equally between “loyalists, fence-sitters, and patriots.” The loyalists,...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 28, 2017 | Economics, Opinion, Politics
A silly little graphic popped up on my Facebook feed today. It presented a two-dimensional political chart, with authoritarian at the top, libertarian at the bottom, economic-left on the left and economic-right on the right. It then devolved this political spectrum...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 27, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Having spent a lifetime around Greeks, and a couple decades working in the restaurant business with many Greeks, I’ve been well-exposed to the intricacies and eccentricities of Greek profanity. Greeks, being in general a religious people, have quite colorful...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | May 21, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Part 2 – On The Other Hand…. … Where Woodrow Wilson fails: foreign affairs. During World War 1 President Wilson should have forced de colonization on Europeans from a position of strength: the Allies greatest peril was the German all-out offensive of...
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