by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 18, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
Political writer Salena Zito may have been the first to summarize the idea that Trump’s supporters take him seriously but not literally in explaining how Trump could survive uttering a seemingly endless stream of verbal gaffes and outright falsehoods in the run...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jan 10, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
A year since the election of the Trump administration, amid florid allegations, we get a few morsels of grounded accusations from courts of law, with all appropriate evidence. Mostly: Paul Manafort, the once-head of the Trump Presidential campaign, failed to pay...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 7, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Donald Trump, yesterday, fulfilled a campaign promise by formally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and announcing the beginning of the process to move America’s embassy there. The hysterics began when it was first rumored he would do so, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 23, 2017 | Environment
With much fanfare, Syria, a nation torn asunder in a civil/proxy war, joined the Paris Climate Accords, leaving America as the final holdout. Whoop-de-lah-di-dah-doo. Does anyone in his right mind think that Syria is going to engage in “climate action,”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 6, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
It is a difficult reality of modern political discourse that some seek to leverage high-visibility events to fit their on-going agendas. One particularly galling example of this is the effort to tu quoque those who condemn radical Islam by casting the Las Vegas...
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