The bumbling croak of former congressman Barney Frank should have been put out to pasture long ago. Frank retired in January 2013, but he is still solicited to mouth off his opinion in the media"for what reason, I have yet to comprehend. As a lawmaker, he was notorious for gay rights advocacy ...
Americans believe a lot of silly things about their northern neighbor, Canada. Being endowed with an "exceptional" heritage leads many Yankees into thinking their country is a beacon of freedom compared to the socialist wasteland beyond the border. Yet plenty of economic rating indexes show ...
American bombs have returned to Iraq. A year after the Obama Administration's proposed air strikes in Syria were thwarted by public outcry, the military-industrial complex is back at work. This time, the target has been switched. Instead of dethroning a sitting dictator, missiles will be targeting ...
Following every national crisis, the Internet serves as a community bulletin board where anyone feels free to tack on his inane beliefs. Regarding Michael Brown, millions of opinions on the teenager's death are popping up on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. In all this ...
My direct relative fought with the loyalists during the American Revolution. He was a traitor to the cause of secession from the Crown. He fought for the British as a Lieutenant Colonel, with his regiment known as the Queen's Loyal Rangers. His was the losing side, for better or worse; and I"m ...
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine": so uttered a distraught and heartbroken Humphrey Bogart in the iconic Casablanca. It's one of the film's many lines that get to the core of human relationships. By fate or happenstance, Ilsa Lund"played by ...
Richard Dawkins must be one execrable speck of a man. The outspoken atheist never tires of picking on the pious, slamming them as ignorant fools beholden to anachronistic beliefs. Cantankerous and self-righteous, Dawkins refuses to argue with creationists because, as he once commented, it affords ...
Economics can be a misleading subject. When it comes to devising useable theories on boosting economic growth, its professional gurus often pretend to be a step above the political class; as intellectuals, they fancy themselves to be in a superior position to advise. If the economy is sluggish, ...
An almost botched execution in Oklahoma has revived a debate of sorts about capital punishment in America. After the failed injection of a lethal "cocktail," a mix of three drugs which was supposed to work quickly, Oklahoma prisoner Clayton Lockett was left struggling in pain for 43 minutes ...
Last Christmas Day, a drone missile flew into the Pakistani village of Qutab Khel and killed four suspected militants. Their identities couldn"t be confirmed because their bodies were reduced to charred remains. The protests of families who resided in the decimated village were ignored. On the ...
