Roy Moore, twice disgraced chief justice of Alabama and now Republican candidate for the US Senate, seems to be a bible-thumping magnet for controversy. Roy, the US Army officer who…
The British government has decided to support a Europe-wide ban on certain insect-killing pesticides believed responsible for the massive die-off of bees and other flying bugs. The decision reverses the…
Funny what you read in the foreign papers. Apparently the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council has ruled that it’s permissible to say “f#@k” on the radio, on one condition. It’s only…
The Trudeau government has come up with $1.6 million to keep the doors open at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory. It’s enough money to keep the lab operating for…
Sure, there are winners and losers in an election, but that should be confined to politicians and parties. The people should never be vanquished. Yet they routinely are. That’s especially…
The Dems took the governor’s mansion in Virginia and New Jersey tonight. This comes on the same day that the French president’s office confirmed Trump is not on the guest…
Think of it as the ostracization of the Cheeto Benito. Following this month’s UN climate summit in Bonn there’s to be a follow-up climate conference in Paris. Over 100 countries…
I can be pretty hard on Justin Trudeau. He does deserve credit for the good things he’s done but that comes with responsibility for his lapses and willful failures. I…
African states attending COP23, the UN climate summit in Bonn, want America’s delegation turfed out. From Deutshe Welle. The Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) represents a coalition of civil society…
Rich folks see themselves as victims. It’s just not fair that they should have to cough up a sizeable chunk of their hard-earned cash to the government. That’s why so…
You would think anyone could understand that the more prevalent the presence of guns, the more opportunity for gun play, the more gun deaths that will occur. You can be…
Washington Post columnist, Michael Gerson, looks to America’s horizons and sees only intellectual and moral exhaustion. Our times are not normal — and it is a disservice to the country…
New Rule – from now on, as in “henceforth,” those who wish to praise Jesus had better be packing heat. The Cheeto Benito has spoken. Responding to the latest massacre…
The industrial meat industry is rife with problems and they often start with how the animals are gathered, transported, held in feed lots for fattening before being slaughtered. Feed lots…
Only it’s not a standard western. It’s Africa. Extended drought is pitting ranchers against farmers as both vie for control of the remaining arable land. In mid-October, people in the…
Sooner or later we’re going to have to realize it’s a “them and us” world. That wasn’t our doing. It was theirs. And the ramifications of this world they’ve created…
If there’s one thing Donald Trump knows, it’s ratings. Whenever his TV faux-reality show comes up he comes out with some line about his incomparable ratings. Well he’s got a…
All the leaked documents tell you is the name of the players, the rich folks who gather up their spare cash and stash it in offshore tax shelters. Names are…
Jesus! Another mass killing in the States. This time in a church in a Baptist church in Southerland Springs, Texas. 20 dead, plenty more wounded. Scads of pictures of grieving…
