by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 4, 2016 | Election, Politics
Fans of the rock/heavy metal band Black Sabbath will likely recognize the title’s reference, a play on the full title of the band’s magnificent anti-war opus. The song, commonly known as War Pigs, has as a full title War Pigs/Luke’s Wall and the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 3, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Life lessons can sometimes appear in the oddest places. Today, it occurred to me that the movie Trading Places, the 1983 comedy starring Dan Aykroyd as a blue-blood snob and Eddie Murphy as a street hustler (and one I’ve watched many times), provides superb and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 24, 2016 | Election, Politics
Yesterday’s Republican primary in Nevada, despite being only the fourth of 50, did a lot to clarify the presidential election picture. Trump won, handily, as the polls predicted, and embracing a “Trump will fade” belief is increasingly falling into...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 23, 2016 | Election, Politics
Much has been made of the GOP’s ineffectiveness at halting or reversing President Obama’s agenda, at the party’s failure to live up to the expectations that propelled it to the victories in 2010 and 2014 that produced the Congressional majorities in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 22, 2016 | Election, Politics
Last weekend, Hillary Clinton won the Nevada Democratic Party caucuses and Donald Trump won the South Carolina Republican Party primary. We now have 3 states’ results for each party. On the Republican side, 103 out of 2472 delegates have been awarded, and on the...
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