Reflecting the spirit of the age, the Canadian Senate has approved new gender-neutral wording for O Canada, Canada’s national anthem. And now the new lyrics to are official. Canadian Heritage Minister Melanie Joly says the two word revision to the…

“Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.” Eric Hoffer, (1902-1983) American author, philosopher, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. Source Reference Eric Hoffer Quote

At least ten people died as Taiwan was hit with a 6.4 earthquake just after midnight on Wednesday the 7th of February. Rescuers combed through rubble at Hualien, a tourist city of about 100,000 people about 120km south from Taipei,…

“All over the Union, people are coming to feel that they have no control over the course of affairs… ‘We vote; we are offered the platform we want; we elect the men who stand on that platform; and we get…

Weather manipulation, known as geoengineering, has been around for millennia and is just as controversial as ever. Now the US government has recommended studies into two areas of geoengineering research. It is even talking about spraying sulfur dioxide in the…

“The general [federal] government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day,instead of working its own cures.” Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source: Letter to George Washington, Philadelphia, May…

The editor of the Barbados Advocate has published an article that advocates the union of church and state and getting the nation back to God. Here is his article. “For some time now, there have been calls for God to…

“I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your  fate.” John…

A railroad track switch locked into the wrong position apparently caused an Amtrak passenger train to crash into a stationary freight train in South Carolina at 2:30 in the morning, Sunday February 4, killing two Amtrak employees and injuring 116…

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissensions, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. The disorders and miseries which…

“Why is there reticence to provide the public with guidelines that will spare them [Coronary Artery Disease] or its progression?” asked Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. MD, in an article published in The American Journal of Cardiology. “The National Research Council…

In an effort to further ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic Church, the Lutheran bishops from Finland made their annual pilgrimage to Rome. They presented Pope Francis with a document to help address remaining differences between the two communions. The document…