by Peter Venetoklis | May 28, 2014 | Culture, Education
Part of adults’ obligations to the children they bring into the world is to prepare them for their own adulthood. This means that schooling and education should be about more than learning skills and facts and training the brain to think in certain ways....
by Peter Venetoklis | May 23, 2014 | Culture
The New York City Council imposed restrictions on the use of electronic cigarettes, a practice sometimes referred to as “vaping,” that mirror those imposed on cigarettes. E-cigarettes are an increasingly popular alternative to regular cigarettes, because...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 23, 2014 | Culture, Not Politics
Many of my friends know I have a fondness for heavy metal music. Some of my friends share that fondness, some are amused, some have no opinion, but at least a few find it an inscrutable and dissonant element of my personality. It raises an occasional eyebrow when it...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 9, 2014 | Politics
Consider four quotes from President Obama: I am elected by you. I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place. – April 2013 Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 28, 2014 | Culture, Economics
President Obama recently delivered a speech, in which he stated: those at the top are doing better than ever too many Americans are working harder than ever just to keep up it’s our job to reverse those trends, and we’ve gotta build an economy that works...
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