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Twelve years ago, a climate research cheating scandal known as “Climategate 2009” rocked the scientific world to the core. Hacked emails among highly influential scientists at the center of worldwide hysteria over climate change revealed routine data tampering and other instances of flagrant scientific misconduct. Although the scientists implicated denied wrong-doing, emails hacked from computers at their employer, the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealed a cons...

While the current pandemic holds a firm grip on everyone’s attention, another killer may be getting a stronger foothold on us—and chances are, women will continue to pay a higher price. Coronary heart disease is already a leading disease for women and men. Common sense suggests the situation is getting worse.  The sedentary lifestyle imposed by lockdowns, accompanied by weight gain and higher alcohol use, is not the way to lower incidence of heart disease.  But how does it affect wome...

How sincere was Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s crocodile tear apology for the Covid clampdown that sees Canada’s most populous province tottering on bankruptcy when just three days later, his henchmen are back ticketing in-person church goers at Kitchener’s Trinity Bible Chapel? Within 24 hours of walking back what were the strictest coronavirus restrictions in North America, empowering police to make random stops on motorists to ticket those on the basis of being out on “non-e...

More red ink from Ottawa wont solve our economic woes April 26, 2021 It’s one thing to pull out the credit card to pay for new shingles to patch a leaky roof in a storm. It’s another thing to pull out that credit card to buy a new big screen before the rain even stops. That’s what Ottawa is doing by pilling up new program spending on top of its $1-trillion debt tab. Even worse, the feds are trying to pitch their debt-financed big screen as a good investment. After record-high gov...

Almost all of the largest cities in the United States are governed by hard-left Democrats. In fact, there is only one Republican Mayor among the top 15 cities in the country and only three among the 30 largest cities. All of the problems in our urban areas today are almost exclusively the result of the failed Democratic Party leadership. While previous generations of Democrats might have tried to find bi-partisan solutions to long standing problems, the party’s leaders in 2021 are woke lef...

As only one of some 15 million people told one week ago Friday by Ontario Premier Doug Ford that this province—home to 39 percent of all Canadians—“could see more than 10,000 coronavirus cases by day by the end of May”, I’ve been living in hope that his dire doom and gloom predictions will not lead to a public panic. Knowing how silently stoic Canadians truly are, I don’t see much chance of it ever happening. “We’re losing the battle between the variants and v...

If you were a fervent America-hating Marxist living in the United States, what would you do with a nation that is rich, powerful, and highly successful? What do you do with a nation that has religious freedom, is basically a moral country, respectful of law and order with the Judeo-Christian principles of hard work, the dignity of human life, strong family ties, common decency, a strong desire for education, and a sense of accountability to God? America has freedom, capitalism, the opportunity ...

This won’t be a conversation about the details of what occurred between Floyd and Chauvin on the street or at the Chauvin trial.  I have my opinion, but it has nothing to do with the devastation caused by the crime(s) that may or not be valid on the street or at the trial. Some people will say Chauvin was a good cop simply doing his job and is a victim of a jury fearful of coming to anything but a guilty verdict. Whether Chauvin was a good cop or a bad cop is immaterial to the reality in ...

NOTE: In this article, “liberal” and “liberalism” refer to what is known as modern American liberalism, as opposed to classical liberalism that advocates individual liberties, laissez-faire economic system, and limited powers of the government. About every time a gunman kills a number (greater than three) of random victims in America, the anti-gun lobby repeats their fallacious rhetoric that the firearms’ “availability” is the root cause of the problem. Last six decades, or so, of...

When my boyhood best friend and mentor Jaybird lost his wife, I saw him cry for the first time. As the casket was lowered into the ground, he could hold back the tears no longer. After a while, with dry eyes, he put his arm on my shoulders, and said, “Let’s go home, boy.” Inwardly, he would continue to suffer; outwardly, he expressed the same courage and tranquility that had sustained him through so many periods of suffering and grief in his long life. “Jaybird, what makes a...