Obama Administration Now Harassing the American Legion With IRS Intimidation

The next evil patriotic American group that Obama is using the IRS to intimidate is that well-known, dangerous organization going by the nefarious name the American Legion, the veteran’s group that has been around since WWI.

Putrid Politics

Anyone who thinks Stephen Harper was let down by his friends in the Senate is naive, to say the least.

Gun Control Issue Resolved in 1791

Our rights are natural, given to us by the Creator. So, with that in mind, understand that The Second Amendment does not give you the right to keep and bear arms. The Second Amendment does not protect you against the government from taking away your guns. Your rights are given to you by God, and protecting your rights are your responsibility.

The Three-Decade Delay of a Nuclear Waste Repository

There was a time when the United States was a can-do nation that built canals, bridges, railroads, and highways. Now we are a nation whose civil engineers annually report the dangers of decaying infrastructure. A perfect example of how incompetent our government has become is the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

Children Should Come With Instructions

“Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society.” - Aristotle Children don’t arrive at birth with a conveniently written manual to address every parental crisis in the middle of the night. It is hard being a parent, especially a good parent, and many of us do need the Idiot’s Guide to Parenting.

How Not to Debate Syria

I’m usually on the opposite side of people from the Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) group, but Peter Hart’s article, “The New Crossfire: Where Both Sides Support War With Syria,” is right on target. Peter Hart is the activism director at the left-wing group. He is already troubled by the direction of the new CNN “Crossfire” program, even though it is not on the air yet.

What If Congress Says NO! to Obama’s Face-Saving War?

Senator Rand Paul(R-KY) seems to have gotten ahead of himself a mite when he declared that he was proud of Barack Obama for following the Constitution by waiting for Congressional action on the pending war against Syria.

Citing Obamacare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO

In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation's largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation.

Are you kidding? 64-year-old Diana Nyad completes 103-mile Cuba-to-Florida swim

I did not know until I saw this headline this morning that Diana Nyad was trying this again, and my first thought was, "How old must she be?" Yeah. Sixty-four. The first time she tried was in 1978. She's always wanted to complete this swim but for a variety of reasons - jellyfish, weather, sharks - she's never made it. But she refused to give up. So when she said this would be her last attempt, she obviously did not have in mind to jump in the water and make some obligatory effort before declaring, hey, she was just too old and it wasn't meant to be.

Dream 2013!

It seems apropos that on Labor Day weekend, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) would host its RightOnline and Defending the American Dream summits in Orlando, FL, home to Disneyworld. After all, Walt Disney believed in dreaming big, and all of us can use an infusion of hope and dreams, especially in the face of a government in which both political parties have gone rogue, riding roughshod over the U. S. citizen/taxpayer and our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. It felt great to escape the lies offered by those in government and supported by those within the puppeteer-controlled media to invest time to rekindle the dream of an exceptional United States, in which people freely pursue liberty and prosperity again!

What to Do About the Head Lice Plague

“As young people return to school one very common problem many will encounter is head lice,” says Leonard Douglen, the Executive Director of the New Jersey Pest Management Association. “Head lice are known to infest between ten to fifteen million people nationwide every year.”

An Array of Araceae

Chanel, the humorously named University of California Santa Barbara’s Amorphallus titanum or corpse flower, attracted predictable media attention on producing its odiferous floriferous display early last month. This is but the latest, and doubtlessly by no means the last, in a long line of such emergences by blooms that emit a putrid odour that has been described like a cross between rotting flesh and Limburger cheese.

Discouraging Squirrels, Mice from Bulbs

Zoologists know it as Sciurus carolinensis. What many a gardener call it upon discovering its depredation of freshly planted bulbs might be ‘you pollinating hybrid’ but is more often unprintable even in such intemperate times as these. Yet there are ways to discourage squirrels from digging up bulbs, as well as the lesser-recognized hazard, that of voles, often incorrectly called field mice.

Autumn Arrives with Fresh Air and Chores

“With autumn approaching, summer is nearly over, and that means that gardening correspondents all over the country are getting out the article they wrote this time last year and rephrasing it slightly,” opined Miles Kingston back in 1982. Sorry to disappoint you, Miles old bean, but despite suspicions from the editor what follows is as fresh as gardening can ever be. Some things, of course, never change; others mercifully go the way of the editorial blue pencil. ‘Twas ever thus and doubtlessly will remain so as long as we continue in our horticultural – and other – pursuits.

NHL hockey in the 1980s: A unique era of exceptionalism

In recent days, we have seen the resurfacing of a seminal moment in Canadian hockey history (and indeed, Canadian history): the 25th anniversary for the trading of National Hockey League (NHL) superstar Wayne Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in August 1988 by Peter Pocklington.

The Pit

One must only look at how the British conduct their legislative business to appreciate the birthplace of American democratic process. One only needs to witness the manner in which Congress conducts America’s legislative business to ask the question; just where in hell did it all go wrong?

The Arab World and the Syrian Crisis

In contrast to the determined and unified response to Qaddafi in 2011 (which was also a result of the Libyan ruler's attempts on the life of a few Arab leaders, among them the then-Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah) that included the use of force by Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, Arab countries have thus far failed to take a firm and united stand toward Syria. The Arab world remains divided on the Syrian question, as reflected in the Arab League resolutions of August 27 and September 1, 2013, which refrained from giving a green light for military action without the blessing of the UN following the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons on August 21, 2013. An announcement by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on August 28, 2013 reflected similar intra-Arab divisions, and also fell short of any explicit endorsement for external military intervention in Syria.

Morning Bell: Is America Still the Land of Labor?

For all the talk these days of how to revive our supposedly moribund American Dream, it took a college dropout-turned-actor to state the obvious.

Coal Saves Forests from Boilers and Sawmills

We read that Greg Hunt and his green allies are promoting a world summit to draft a “global rainforest recovery plan to preserve and expand the world’s standing forests”.

British Pastor faces prosecution for ‘Good News for Gays’ tract

Knock knock, who’s there, the police! What are the police doing here? I’m a pastor, is a member of my congregation in trouble? No sir, says the officer, you are! You are being charged with committing a homophobic crime. You sent an email to a homosexual and they are offended.