by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 3, 2017 | Culture, Environment, Opinion, Politics
This week’s non-shocking news out of the White House centers on Trump’s decision to withdraw America from the Paris Climate Accord. It’s non-shocking in that it was a campaign promise, although in the realm of politics, perhaps it is a shock that a...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 31, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
What is the message of today’s Democratic Party and of the Left in general? Yes, we know “Trump sucks,” and Hillary should have won, and the GOP has been taken over by right wing extremists and religious zealots that are going to turn the nation into...
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 | May 11, 2017 | Election, Opinion, Politics
In a move that set the political world into a frenzy and the blogosphere on fire, Trump fired FBI director James Comey yesterday. Chaos ensued. Skyscrapers collapsed. Earthquakes swallowed Tokyo, San Francisco, Manila and Jakarta. Tidal waves wiped out low-lying...
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