Arguing that we have created a “negative rat race, with limited ability or potential for good interactions with one another,” the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran an opinion article on Christmas day, 2015 suggesting that it’s time to protect Sunday as a…

By Betsy Mayer and Pastor Hal Mayer An augmented reality (AR) game, Pokémon GO, which blends the physical world with digital objects, is taking the young adult world by storm. “Pokémon GO” (Pokémon means: Pocket monsters) is now the top…

“Russia is assembling military forces in eastern Europe as it draws closer to a potential Cold War-style standoff with NATO in the Baltic states.” The build-up includes troops, trucks, equipment, radar systems to various bases around Kaliningrad and also sites…

After the unexpected Brexit vote, the EU is shaken up and is scrambling to avoid the “spill-over effect” to prompt further defections. Berlin’s plan to use the EU for its own hegemonic purposes is being challenged. When Britain’s military, for…

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, sometimes known as “the three amigos” met to discuss climate change and free trade between the three countries they represent. Two lavish dinners were opportunities…

Friday, July 22, 2016 was very hot. At 110 °F (43 °C) and with sustained winds of 15 miles per hour (24km/h) and gusting up to 25 miles per hour (40 km/h), conditions were very dangerous. About 2:10 pm a…

Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner says U.S. judges should stop studying the Constitution. “I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment,…

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has ordered police to escalate his war on illegal drugs. “Double your efforts. Triple them if need be,” he said. “We will not stop until the last drug lord, the last financier and the last pusher…

Nickelodeon, an American children’s channel owned by Viacom, made dubious history by airing the first animated cartoon show featuring a happily “married” same-gender couple in an episode called, “The Loud House.” Social media lit up with glowing reviews of the…

Hillary Clinton has chosen former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine for her vice-presidential running mate. Kaine is also a junior senator in the U.S. Congress, hoping to close the “God-gap” in the Democratic Party. In light of Donald Trump’s capture of…

“When I die I hope I’ll have a chance to hit God in the face. If there is a God he already knows about this and he’ll get away – and as an agnostic I probably won’t get the chance….

And 18-year-old German Iranian man shot and killed nine people plus himself. He also wounded 16 others at a shopping mall in Munich in an attack about 6 pm on Friday evening July 22. Apparently he lured people to the…