Was Dec. 21, 2012, the end of days? Nope. Not so much. The 13-baktun cycle of the Maya Long Count calendar ended on Dec. 21, 2012, the winter solstice. This cycle is 1,872,000 days or 5,125.366 tropical years long. (A tropical year is when the sun passes from one vernal equinox to another. It ...
In this season of giving, I'll donate to the Doe Fund, a charity that helps drug abusers and ex-cons find purpose in life through work. Doe's approach doesn't include many handouts. It's mostly about encouraging people to work. "Work works!" they say. It does. Most Doe Fund workers don't go ...
It emerged over the weekend that the House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to investigate the use of American taxpayers' dollars to fund the Murder, Inc. that is Hamas. With the revelations that billions of donor dollars that were supposed to be used for humanitarian aid for Gazans have instead ...
Seventeen years ago this week, I started the day losing my job and ended the day looking my wife in the eyes to tell her she was going to die. Doctors thought they had found a very aggressive form of cancer in her lungs. She had, in their estimation, six months. Thankfully, before the end of ...
At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, and in which current polling has the incumbent trailing, both parties seem bent on nominating two men who have served as president and about whom substantial majorities of voters have negative ...
There has plenty of good news to celebrate here at the end of 2023, the promise that populist movements can continue to catch fire. In a rebuke of socialism, Argentina elected libertarian Javier Milei. In a similar rebuke of globalism, the Netherlands elected nationalist Geert Wilders. And ...
