H Paul Garland

In the twentyfirst century The United States federal government does a better job at protecting the consumer from hazardous products and sca...

Click on this picture and it will enlarge. It was taken by the official White House photographer Pete Souza. It shows President Barack Obama...

The latest numbers from the United States Census Bureau estimate that El Paso, Texas now has a population of 742,062. When the population o...

I have a friend in the south of England who is currently going through his third session of chemotherapy for abdominal cancer. My friend is...

When I was in my 20’s I had a wonderful girlfriend named Kathy. She was from Buffalo, New York, and she knew a lot about things that I didn’...

Max Keiser is a film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader. He hosts The Oracle with Max Keiser on BBC World News . His v...

Wanda Sykes is wonderful. She was her typical outspoken self the other night at the White House roast: - “Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this a...

In the movie Clint Eastwood  famously said, "I know what you're thinking — "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, t...

Lots of Canadians, British, French, Germans, and Australians know a dirty little secret about America that most Americans cannot seem to adm...

I got the following today by email.  It is not at all politically correct, and I fully agree with Obama that we should not torture under any...

The former vice president Dick Cheney has come out and openly said that he prefers the morbidly obese entertainer Rish Limbaugh as compared ...

Chalcedony is silicon dioxide. It is a fibrous, translucent to opaque, compact microcrystalline variety of quartz that occurs in white, gray...

Most well educated, worldly wise people seem to be in favor of gay marriage. I certainly think women are desirable and sexy, so I can see wh...

I must admit it, I am biased against marketing types. I do not respect them or their profession. I have nothing against black people, jews, ...

According to a Washington Post article that I read today, roughly one-half of all post WWII “baby boomers” do not have any employer sponsore...

The caseloads of the investigators for the state prosecutor's office in Juarez, Mexico are completely out of control. There are 20 inve...

Sven-Göran Eriksson is not well known in America, but in Europe and the rest of the world he is indeed extremely well know. He is from Swede...

I lived in The Netherlands for 15 years, so I have seen a great many original Vincent Van Gogh works. The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam is on...

In America when one graduates from High School, or University, or gets married for the first time, the socially correct thing to do is to po...

Instead of calling graffiti a form of vandalism or a crime perpetrated by lower class youth, it is currently politically correct to refer to...