“It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.” Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: US Supreme…

Far from the news headlines Germany and two of its European allies, the Czech Republic and Romania, quietly took a radical step down a path toward something that looks something like an EU army in the making while avoiding the…

“The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. But there is also a constructive reason. The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture,…

In early October, reports surfaced that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually harassed or assaulted multiple women over decades. Weinstein was fired from the studio he co-founded after a wave of more than 80 women accused him of sexual harassment…

“They said it couldn’t be done but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way.” Casey Stengel [Charles Dillon Stengel], (1890-1975) Legendary baseball manager. Source Reference Casey Stengel Quote

Unfortunately, but as we predicted, Australians have emphatically voted in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage, saying “yes” to the historic social change by a substantial margin of 61.6 per cent to 38.4 per cent. After years of political stagnation, the public has now…

“Force always attracts men of low morality.” Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921. Source Reference Albert Einstein Quote

Rescuers searched the rubble of toppled buildings for bodies as the death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck a border region on Sunday, November 12 between Iran and Iraq climbed to at least 530. The province of Kermanshah in western…

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken…

It lasted barely two minutes but felt “like a typhoon” when 100km/h winds tore through the Hunter Valley town of Kurri Kurri in New South Wales, Australia. Dozens of buildings on the main street were badly damaged with the town…

“Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834) English poet, critic, philosopher, and a leader of the British Romantic movement. Source Reference Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote

By Dr. Michael Gregor Colon cancer risk in Westernized populations may be reduced by decreasing animal product intake and thereby decreasing  “aggressive” factors as animal protein and fat. Animal fat can stimulate the synthesis and secretion of bile acids into…