by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 9, 2016 | Economics, Opinion
In his farewell speech, President Eisenhower famously warned of the undue influence of the military-industrial complex on government and politics. Perhaps less famously, in his very next thought, he also cautioned about the growing domination of government funding in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 8, 2016 | Election, Politics
The most common descriptor in American politics is the Left-Right axis. Democrats and liberals are considered to be on and embody the Left, and Republicans and conservatives are considered to be on and embody the Right. The axis is woefully inadequate for the task...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 3, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Life lessons can sometimes appear in the oddest places. Today, it occurred to me that the movie Trading Places, the 1983 comedy starring Dan Aykroyd as a blue-blood snob and Eddie Murphy as a street hustler (and one I’ve watched many times), provides superb and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 20, 2016 | Culture
It’s a good time to be a nerd. All across the landscape, nerd culture is paramount. The top-rated comedy on television is The Big Bang Theory, a show about a group of very smart, very nerdy science types who work at CalTech on science stuff. Police procedurals,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 6, 2016 | Election, Politics
The Economist reports that ISIS has established a strong foothold in the city of Sirte, which is in the middle of Libya’s Mediterranean coastline. ISIS reportedly controls about 180 miles of that coastline, centered on Sirte, and has 5000 fighters active there....
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