H Paul Garland

The Boy Scouts are becoming largely irrelevant. Blacks and Hispanics are extremely rare in the BSA. It is mostly an organization for white b...

More people have been killed in the last few years in the border city of Juarez, Mexico than the total of American troops who have died in t...

I know someone who refuses to hear anything negative about President Barack Obama. I have been an Obama supporter since before the primary, ...

Several people were injured and one was killed in a recent attack by a bear(s) in a Wyoming campground. These were not backpackers, where th...

At the last minute a Federal Judge has blocked virtually all parts of the new Arizona immigration legislation which was controversial. I fin...

On the far east side of El Paso, Texas the tap water supplied by El Paso Water Utilities comes from fairly deep wells. They pump up the very...

One of the foundations of America is that congress shall make no law which infringes upon religious freedom. So the freedom to choose to bel...

Yesterday Michael Hayden, the top CIA man under Bush Jr. told CNN's State of the Union that a military strike against Iran now “seems i...

Secret hidden writing, uranium glass, elegant and beautiful fluorescent minerals, color TV, scientific use in the laboratory. There are many...

The Republicans really are much, much worse than the Democrats. And if we allow Obama's glaring defects to demoralize us so badly that w...

Reading an article by the BBC on how many find college degrees irrelevant got me started thinking. I know young people who have four year un...

Last night on the PBS News Hour during the discussion with Mark Shields, the conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that ...

Bonnie isn't especially strong, but it is technically a tropical storm. It seems to be aiming directly for the lying BP bastards. Couldn...

Ford is continuing to report good profits, and it appears that the vehicles they are making are now almost approaching Japanese levels of qu...

In America we seem to often ignore that until someone is actually convicted by a court of law, they are supposed to be treated and thought o...

Shirley Sherrod is the black lady who was fired from the U.S.D.A. after they and the White House both failed to properly investigate or get ...

In the newest season of Warehouse 13 the actors are being made to behave like fools and buffoons. This sort of denigration is unappealing. I...

At an international (Panamerican) Boy Scout Jamboree in Tepoztlan, a group of Boy Scouts from Juarez and Chihuahua greeted the Mexican First...

In Europe short work weeks, long paid vacations, generous health care for all, full retirement at very young ages, thirteenth and fourteenth...

At the flea market this morning I bought a neat early model 35mm SLR camera for $5-. This camera is a Ricoh 35 Flex. It was also sold as the...