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…

“Let us remind ourselves that in the Soviet Union the road to medical-care hell was paved with the same good intentions. … At the end of the 20th century, Russia was infamous for having one of the worst health-care systems…

“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…

Spending time in nature has been clinically shown by a large body of evidence to be beneficial, even therapeutic – in many ways. Scientists in Japan researched the effect of spending time in nature on the body’s physical and psychological…

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…

“If something is wrong for you or me, it is also wrong for the cop, the soldier, the mayor, the governor, the general, the Fed chairman, the president. Theft does not become acceptable when they call it taxation, counterfeiting when…

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,…

“it is easier for us to find points of convergence with the Mexicans than Europeans. They are passionate and they know how we keep our word. [And they] Hardly betray” Sheikh Omar Mahmood, 52, ISIS trainer, who trains jihadists in…

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…