by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 3, 2015 | Health, Politics
One of the commonly used terms in the debate over birth control, abortion and other “reproductive health care services,” as such are dubbed, is access. Hillary Clinton used the term recently in a speech at the 2015 Women in the World Summit, where she was...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 6, 2015 | Opinion
Strong words, these are. They imply elements physical and psychological. As a guiding principle, they seem most apt for prisons or a totalitarian regimes. They were the motto posted at the TSA air marshal training center headquarters post 9/11. In-flight air marshals...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 30, 2015 | Opinion
Our lives and our interactions with the people in our lives are inevitably full of disagreements, arguments and debates. In the political realm, those disagreements tend to be categorized, delineated, reduced in complexity down to sound-bite level, and placed on...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 16, 2015 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
It was announced yesterday that the jury considering the penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the recently convicted Boston Marathon bomber, elected to sentence him to death. The reaction I’ve read on social media has been overwhelmingly favorable, with many...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 21, 2015 | Election, Politics
Hillary Clinton, former First Lady, former Senator from NY, former Secretary of State, former and current candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President, made a rather stark proclamation last week. At her first official campaign event, held in Monticello,...
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