Columns

There wasn’t a band playing “The World Turned Upside Down” (Yorktown 1781) but such musical accompaniment wouldn’t have seemed out of place Tuesday night as the outcomes of the New Hampshire Democratic and Republican primaries became clear.  

Maybe this will exclude me from ever receiving such an honor but I shall say it anyway: the  Order of the Aztec Eagle (Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca) has fallen into disrepute.   

When Sean Penn gets involved in “foreign affairs” one should expect weird stuff to happen.

“We know that we can’t stop every act of violence. But what if we tried to stop even one?”  U.S. President Barack Obama

After the inaction of the U.S. Congress and rising incidents of mass slaughter, President Obama has decided to go it alone and take executive action to shore up loopholes in the law that reduce the possibility of undesirable citizens accessing weapons.

Similar to Margaret Thatcher, Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper unified conservatives, won three elections in a row and utterly dominated the political landscape for almost a decade. 

A university in England has banned students from wearing sombreros after they deemed the Mexican hats to be “racist.”