Republicans seem to believe that the success they have had in their petulant and obstinate efforts at obstruction is translated to some mindless notion of more generic “success,” and will be viewed by the public in that way. Furthermore, they hope that their ability to obstruct everything will be viewed as generic “failure” on the part of the Obama administration, and that this will translate to Republican success at the polls in November and two years down the road.

Their “success” in this regard, however,...

Am I the only one looking forward to the Republican primary debates like a kid looking forward to Christmas morning? I can’t wait!

CANDY CROWLEY: I’d like to welcome everyone here to the first Republican primary debate of 2016, between Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Marco Rubio of Florida. To start off, each candidate will make an opening statement. Senator Paul, let’s start with you.

RAND PAUL: Thank you, Candy. And I’d like to thank the...

All great and dandy and Rita describes it beautifully. However, it is Americanized – and this is not a bad thing, its just the way it naturally is. To truly appreciate Easter through the eyes of a Greek Orthodox, you must celebrate it in Greece. Now remember, it may differ slightly from region to region within the country, but indeed it is the same. As a point of interest, Easter celebration is the only time that both the followers of the Gregorian Calendar and those...

Such is the ripoff that our stupid politicians have allowed to develop since handing out the keys to the hen house to the wolves at Big Telecom with deregulation years ago. Despite the fact that the cost of telecom infrastructure is now several orders or magnitude less than it was then, Big Telecom’s power bought from corrupt politicians, has reduced Canadian telecom from a best in the world operation to almost third world status on a price/performance basis.

With the ownership of the cable routes towers...

America has always been at war with itself when radical actions get caught in Constitutional think tanks but it the Supreme Court always was the referee to set the record straight. I think of the Black Panthers and FBI and The Chicago 7 trials in the 60’s and early 70’s. I think it is best for law be left to the ones that charge crimes and not congress who should be working on other agendas. I do think it is a dangerous path in...