by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 9, 2015 | Economics, Politics
Just a few weeks before I was born, Lyndon Baines Johnson gave his first State of The Union address since becoming President upon the death of John F. Kennedy. The full text of the address is a fascinating read, especially within the context of LBJ’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 29, 2015 | Culture, Health, Not Politics
A friend and former employee who has gone all-in on healthy living and all things natural has been sharing a variety of links and news stories with me of late – stories decrying GMO foods, Big Pharma, chemotherapy and Monsanto as the greatest evils of modern...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 7, 2015 | Culture
Just in from an alternate universe that we might call the left wing of the left wing comes a declaration that the three-meal-a-day routine that is the norm of daily life is racist. This deep insight comes courtesy of Kiera Butler, a senior editor at Mother Jones. The...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 1, 2015 | Culture, Environment, Health, Politics
I came across an interesting observation on a political page yesterday. The commenter asked why it seemed that the people most certain that the science of global warming was settled and irrefutable were oftentimes vocally anti-vaccine and anti-GMO. At first blush, it...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 28, 2015 | Economics, Politics
An effort to audit the Fed, spearheaded by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, has been gaining momentum since the Republican mid-term election victories this past November. It has, apparently, achieved enough popularity to prompt the folks at the Federal Reserve to...
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