by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 29, 2013 | Politics
A landmark First Amendment case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, was decided in 2010 by the Supreme Court. The particulars of the case can be found all over the internet, but the gist of the case is that a political lobbying group made a film about...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 19, 2013 | Politics
Today I came across this quote by Frank Herbert, the science fiction writer who authored the book Dune: All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. The...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 12, 2013 | Culture, Opinion
While flipping through a book of aphorisms by the American philosopher Eric Hoffer, I came across this little ditty: Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 4, 2013 | Economics, Health
One of the big drivers of health care costs, we are told, is the extraordinary effort the system puts into extending the lives of people with late-term cancers and other terminal illnesses. Look around and you will find plenty of stories about this or that person...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 24, 2013 | Health, Politics
President Obama, with Biden and some other dignitaries at his back, is now standing up and calling on Congress to pass immigration reform. Meanwhile, the ObamaCare train wreck remains unresolved, Kathleen Sebelius has been called to the Hill to testify, an...
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