SHOULD PERSONS IN A VEGETATIVE STATE BE KEPT ALIVE?

Remember the Florida woman, Terry Schiavo.  For decades here doctors and husband said she was in a vegetative state with  no mindfulness andf should be allowed to die.  Her parents argued she was alive and conscious.  In the event, she  was alllowed to die.-
Now we have Rom Houben.  The 46-year-old Belgian after a car crash [...]

SHOULD THOSE IN A VEGETATIVE STATE BE KEPT ALIVE?

SHOULD THE MONARCH BE ABLE TO MARRY A CATHOLIC?

At the Commonwealth conferen ce this weekend in Trinidad, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is sounding out the members about the 1701 Act of Settlement that forbids the British monarch from marrying a Roman Catholic should be changed.  Thr chairman of the Monarchist League  in Canada is urging the Commonwealth to make the change.  A [...]

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT IN A CAR CRASH AT 2:25 AM ALCHOHOL IS NOT INVOLVED?

When he attempted to leave his gated ommunity home in Florida at 2:25 in the morning, Tiger Woods crashed he Cadillac SUV into a fire hydrant and then crashed into a tree in his neighbour’s yard.  Woods was helped out of the car by his wife, then transported to the hospital with face lacerations, then released.  [...]

SHOULD THE WHITE HOUSE GATE-CRASHERS BE PUNISHED?

As most of us know now, a young couple from Maryland without invitations got through Secret Service security and camarashed this week’s White House State dinner.  Not only that but thy had theirt picture taken with Joe Biden and Ram Emmanuel and they got mighty close to Obama and Michelle.
Turns out they are a harmless [...]

IS THIS CENSORSHIP?

Most people know the 2010 winter Olympics are takiing place in British Columbia.  What most  people probably don’t know is that there is restrictions on what participants in the arts-festival portion of the Olympics can say.  All participants in the cultural side of the Olympics must sign the following pledge:  “The artist shall at all [...]

SHOULD HOMOSEXUALITY BE CRIMINALIZED?

This weekend there is a conference of the countries (55) of the countries of the British Commonwealth in Trinidad.  The chariman of the meeting is President Musevini of Uganda.  This is causing an uproar because there is a bill passing through the Ugandan parliament that would criminalize abortion in that country. 
The law would impose a [...]

WILL PALIN GO FOR THE WHITE HOUSE?

If Sarah Palin were planning to run for the presidency in 2012, what would she be doing now?  I would argue she would be doing exactly what she is doing — writing a book, getting rich from  book, and doing a book tour where she can reconnect with her b ase in every place from [...]

IS OUR HEALTH CARE TOO EXPENSIVE?

Did y ou know that Canada spends 11.9 percent of our GDP on health care?  That comes to a total health care cost annually of $183 billion dollars.  And that comes to $5,452 each year for evostsery single Canadian.  Not only that.  Health careare costs are rising steadily about five per cent a year as [...]

WILL THE WORLD END?

According to a famous Mayan prophecy the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012, at 11.11 am just in time to ruin our last Christmas shopping season.  the blockbuster movie, 2012, says we will die from earthquakes, volcanoes, and tidal waves.  Other films, books and TV shows predict the doomsday will be caused by meteor [...]