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Wednesday Night #1751
September 23, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1751

As Yom Kippur ends, the 2015 Hajj begins and the now-famous tent city at Mina (the one that is definitely NOT for refuge ...

Wednesday Night #1750
September 16, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1750

The week started with a bang – the news that Australian PM Tony Abbott had been ousted by an internal party vote. ...

Wednesday Night #1749
September 9, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1749

The Syrian refugee crisis It is hard to believe that it is only a week since the heartrending picture of the lifeless bo ...

Wednesday Night #1748
September 2, 2015, 1 Comment

“Although the calendar always says January 1 is the beginning of the year, the real year — school year, univ ...

Wednesday Night #1747
August 26, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1747

Reuters makes it official: China, one of the main engines of the world economy, has overtaken Greece at the top of the w ...

Wednesday Night #1746
August 18, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1746

The current heat wave does not contribute to creative thinking and that appears to include most of the media sources on ...

Wednesday Night #1745
August 12, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1745

Gerald Ratzer and Tom Haslam-Jones remind us of the importance of 1745 to the Scots because of the Jacobite uprising ...

Wednesday Night #1744
August 5, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1744

FINALLY, on Sunday morning*, Stephen Harper put an end to the conjecture about WHEN the writ would be dropped. As far as ...

Honourable Flora MacDonald, 1926-2015
August 2, 2015, 1 Comment

Flora MacDonald, longtime politician, dead at 89 Nova Scotia native became Canada’s 1st female secretary of state ...

Wednesday Night #1743
July 29, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1743

Following last Wednesday’s excellent SRO discussion of Greece and the EU with Kimon, plus the excitement of the wo ...