by Peter Venetoklis | May 27, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Having spent a lifetime around Greeks, and a couple decades working in the restaurant business with many Greeks, I’ve been well-exposed to the intricacies and eccentricities of Greek profanity. Greeks, being in general a religious people, have quite colorful...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | May 21, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Part 2 – On The Other Hand…. … Where Woodrow Wilson fails: foreign affairs. During World War 1 President Wilson should have forced de colonization on Europeans from a position of strength: the Allies greatest peril was the German all-out offensive of...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 14, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Back in the day, in this case the early 1980s, radio shock jock Howard Stern was driving scolds, prudes and nannies crazy with his antics on WNBC in New York. Stern’s success and the loyalty of his listeners, as the story goes, was parsed by radio executives as...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 21, 2017 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Socialized medicine advocates argue their case from angles both moral and practical. Their moral case, that civilized societies take care of their weak and needy, suffers from two major flaws: it conflates “society,” i.e. you and me and that which we do...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 19, 2017 | Guns
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. “If you are on a no-fly list, you should be on the no-buy list!” Two of the many lists the federal government maintains are the No-Fly List,...
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