by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 21, 2021 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Yesterday, Joe Biden got sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. In his acceptance speech, Biden spoke the word “unity/uniting” eleven times, and he declared that, We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban,...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jan 4, 2021 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Last month, the Supreme Court refused to take up a challenge to Pennsylvania’s voting process put forth by Texas, a decision I roundly criticized. That decision is, I fear, even worse than originally posited, with the country breaking at the seams, culturally,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 22, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Election, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Many of us have a bipolar relationship with social media. On the one hand, I think it’ll go down in history as a horribly corrosive influence on human interaction and cultural advancement. On the other hand, it offers us the opportunity to “meet” and...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 28, 2020 | Election, Health, Opinion, Politics
Anyone who thought we would escape pandemic year election 2020 without maximum self-inflicted agony has not been paying attention. Naturally, lawyers have added a heapin-helpin. That a judge is throwing out Republican lawsuits in Pennsylvania that contest the election...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 28, 2020 | Politics
I recently wrote of how our major political parties have become compromised by their cynical transactions, and how that state of compromise means that they both occupy the same solution space on many major areas of public policy. This includes militarism: there is...
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