It speaks volumes that the Republican nomination is so hotly contested: everyone knows its winner will stand against the most monumental failure since Jimmy Carter–and therein lies the allure. What if the President falters badly, can any Republican get elected? Even the worst of the Republican candidates are skilled debaters and very fast on their [...]

Imagine, if you will, a Massachusetts politician so dizzily wealthy that the common folk can’t relate to him. How does a quarter of a billion dollars grab you? Someone who has served his country by committing to the support of charity work like no other; someone who has redefined political leadership in his state; someone [...]

John Adams, one of the fathers of American confederation, once remarked about a fellow progenitor, Thomas Paine, that “…without the pen of the author of ‘Common Sense,’ the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.” Mr. Paine, who emigrated from England in 1774 to fight for a revolution which few truly understood, wrote [...]

The world became an even more fragile place in 2011. Good didn’t often trump evil. We endured war, pestilence, disease, murder, uprisings, Charlie Sheen and Kim Kardashian–since we’re to include all major disasters, even the insignificant ones. Well, you know what I mean… Picking the top news stories of the year wasn’t easy. There were [...]

In the latter part of the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, Atticus is resigned to the fact that his arguments in support of Tom’s undeniable innocence have failed–as the all white jury convicts an innocent black man, despite clear evidence to the contrary. He folds legal briefs into a [...]

The much-maligned President Bush II, committed and delivered a truly staggering, though highly commendable $15,000,000,000 in AIDS funding to Africa beginning in 2003 and ending in 2008. In just those five years, the President was responsible for spearheading the dramatic reduction in suffering on the African continent. But that wasn’t enough. So, in his own [...]

On the eve of the Euro becoming law in Greece, my father–who served as the Hon. Trade Commissioner of Greece in Western Canada for almost two decades, and I sat having lunch in a Scottsdale hotel. “I think they’re making a big mistake,” I said. And then came the rather shocking reply from my then [...]

I support gay marriage. I always have. I also support the right of gay couples to adopt. I have some very good gay friends who have adopted and their children appear well-adjusted, good in school and healthy. I couldn’t be more thrilled for them and for a world with such poeple. My son has many [...]

I knew that would get your attention, considering the subject. Well, it was an ‘Oil Orgy’. But I must say our loyal High Commissioner in London is looking fit, trim, well-coiffed, nattily attired–and amused, very amused. While discussions were going on between Canada and the United Kingdom on how to further support the ‘Tar Sands’ [...]

It did not require an extensive background in the law to determine that not only Amanda Knox didn’t belong behind bars, but too, the Italian justice system that miserably failed her, is a lavish travesty. The material evidence having been mishandled from the beginning and the trial being consumed with procedural errors, reasonable doubt was [...]