by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 15, 2019 | Politics
On December 15, 1791, the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified. 228 years later, we commemorate their enshrinement in the annals of human history. They affirm, in detail, the unalienable rights...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 11, 2019 | Environment
There are 86 coal power plants currently in operation in the US. Collectively, they have a capacity of 107 GW of electricity, and provided 27% of the nation’s total power in 2018. They emit 1.97 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. It is fairly well...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 10, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
Back at the turn of the century – the 19th century, that is, a movement arose to battle against graft and corruption in government, by supporting candidates of a reform mindset. They were mockingly called goo-goos, short, of course, for...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 9, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion
A joke/lesson that’s been around since pre-Internet days posits two cows within different nations and/or economic systems. It’s both funny and instructive (as my calling it a joke/lesson implies, clearly), and one version can be found here. Among all sorts...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 8, 2019 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Prior to the last election, a conversation among friends included an “admission” by one, an executive in a large corporation, who noted that the past years under Obama had been good for him economically. His company had done well, he had made money and...
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