Fifteen billionaires and six coorporations own more than 90% of U.S. media. So I was a little amused when U.S. … More

Having breakfast with a friend who is a history expert, the conversation wandered over to the sensational Portland Oregon incident concerning … More

For safety’s sake its would be a good idea for the T.S.A. to go ahead and ban all notebook computers … More

Making a political trial of what was otherwise a fairly common sort of crime, although usually one with alcohol or … More

If the recent scientific finding that mankind became the human line in Europe-in the Balkans 7.2 million years ago, just … More

Senator McCain has a different point of view about Russian leader Vladimir Putin and ISIS. He feels that Mr. Putin … More

Before the Industrial Revolution the ecosphere was more or less healthy. Since then it has fallen into decay. It is … More

In addition  to honoring the nation’s veterans that served and died, those victims of the 9-11 massacre should be added … More

What is actually wrong with trying to establish a back-channel line of communication to Moscow that circumvents the bureaucratic and … More

The slaying of two men and stabbing of a third in Portland aboard a light rail train is a reminder … More

The question ‘what is truth‘ precedes ‘where is truth’. Is truth in the mind, within a book, on the tip … More

Hillary Clinton giving a commencement speech at Wellesley College once again applied hate speech criteria referring to those that vote … More

T/F; each mathematically chaotic system has a meta-mathematical reciprocal of order

In the context of Kierkegaard’s ‘Fear and Trembling’, the Universal should not, without exceedingly good cause, be suspended. The age … More

Vladmir Purin should create the equivelent of the Rhodes Scholarship to balance the influence on U.S. foreign policy. Bill Clinton-the … More

Here are a few interesting and scenic Northern Ice videos… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrxlYExeyU      Svalbard satellite timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t58AbGd2Vd0     Taking … More

President Trump rightly pointed out that the Germans are very, very bad. He was referring to their trade surplus with … More

When the Harvard Crimson student paper was hacked targeting Mark Zuckerberg visiting for a commencement speech there were articles posted … More

When Barrack Obama left office he had brought chaos to the Middle East and a slow-burning conflict to Europe in … More

Republicans need to get real with a good health care paradigm that isn’t just a crooks ideal transformation of Obama-Corporate-Burocratocare … More

People dying from Alzheimer’s are up 50% perhaps as a result of a worse social environment to live in rather … More

HUD Sect. Ben Carson in an interview recently said that ‘poverty is a state of mind’. Yes the remark had … More

Evolution can mean many things. Change and complexity increasing in time seems to be the main meaning. Things that don’t … More

The costs of destroying the purity of ANWR will far outweigh the benefits of tearing up tundra, melting permafrost, laying … More