by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 4, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
The Democratic Party’s leftward lurch, led by Bernie Sanders’ heir-apparent, “it-girl” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has hit a few internecine bumps in the road of late, with AOC threatening to primary the “moderates” who aren’t...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 15, 2019 | Culture, Environment, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
An article over at Forbes attempts to answer the question “why don’t greens and progressives embrace nuclear power as a solution to global warming?” Some who actually think about things do, but they are few, and they are typically ignored. The...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 10, 2019 | Health, Opinion, Politics
EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay is the second in a series about the plight of street people and how our system mishandles them. The USA spends twice on healthcare what the next highest spender in the world does (with poor results). The healthcare industry is the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 9, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Politics
By now, everyone who pays attention to politics has heard of the Green New Deal being proposed by the left-end of the Democratic Party. Being flogged as not only an environmental necessity, but as a means of achieving social justice and support for the poor by it-girl...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 6, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
As has become my norm, I opted out of sitting through the State of the Union address, choosing to read the transcript the morning after. In doing so, I save myself 82 minutes of theater, preening (by everyone there), applause breaks, photo-ops, and the like that...
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