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I think I understand the English language fairly well, having a teaching major in secondary language arts. I understand hyperbole, sarcasm, wit, and several other niceties of the American idiom. What I don’t understand is how the leader of this country ca
I grew up in the glorious days of the 60s when President Kennedy set a goal for the U.S…..to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Although NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was established in 1958, its mission clearly sta
An article by Paul Willcocks in the Victoria Times Colonist today caught my attention. While we all know our President urged the major hitters in the game of global finance to continue to stimulate the global economy by more money printing and borrowing (
Today the President will meet with the General he appointed to head up the war in Afghanistan after firing the previous general, David McKiernan, in 2008. The reason for the meeting was disparaging remarks made by the General Stanley McChrystal and his st
It’s got to be one of the greatest mysteries of all time…a case that would tax the likes of Sherlock Holmes or Nero Wolfe. How did Alvin Greene, an unemployed Army veteran who lives with his dad, win the South Carolina Democratic primary for the U.S. Sena
There is one trait President Obama exhibits time and again. He almost sounds like the kid in the fifth grade who blames everyone else around him for the trouble he’s in.
For his year and a half in office, he has consistently blamed his predecessor for
Maybe it’s the guy’s love of the camera and the perks of being in power that keeps Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-New York) running for re-election. At 80, he’s had 20 successful runs for the House. However, if you mention Rangel’s name today, eyeballs should rol
This is probably not a topic with sufficient gravitas to deal with as a conservative, but a funny thing happened at the ballpark recently. Maybe it’s not humorous and in the scheme of things of history may not rank even a footnote. But I think it does.
None of us likes to hear of disasters, but living in a finite world with imperfections of nature all around us, such things happen. Take, for instance, this year’s infestation of the Eastern caterpillar. Trees stripped of young leaves in what might have b
In May of this year, the oral contraceptive known as “The Pill” turned 50 years old. The pill first became available at a time when thirty states still banned the promotion of birth control. At first doctors prescribed it for treatment of “female disorder
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