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Shamrock Shenanigans: Luck or Skill?

Let us depend less on the myth of elusive luck and instead sharpen up our skills regularly.

(SALEM) - Each of us has a "personal beef" in the many cliches we hear in everyday conversation.

People do not generally mean to be misleading or inaccurate. Yet that pitfall is very hard to avoid. How many of us fall automatically into wishing "Good Luck" to somebody facing a new challenge?

Asthma Therapy: Marijuana Vs Corticosteroids and Beta Agonists

Marijuana wins hands down.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The subject of asthma has been a huge controversy almost since it was first defined by Hippocrates about 450 b.c.

It was recognized as a disease in ancient Egyptian medical texts. In the U.S., the first medical article published, was in 1872.

Second Amendment Truths

Individuals alone do not constitute a well regulated body...

(PASO ROBLES, CA) - In 1783-9 ‘Militia’ meant a well regulated body of men under the leadership of such as Geo. Washington who defeated the English whose Officers surrendered to him at York.

Victory was won by patriots with firearms meant to provide food for their families...

Train Versus Truck Crash Near Brooks sends Driver to Hospital

The driver was departing a loading dock.

(SALEM) - A 56-year old truck driver was hospitalized following a collision between his truck and freight train, near Brooks Friday morning.

Marion County Deputies were called at 10:09 a.m. The collision occurred on private property 200 yards north of the railroad crossing on Brooklake Road NE in Salem.

Damascus University Resists US Civilian Targeting Sanctions

The White House would do well to cancel its student targeting sanctions.

(DAMASCUS) - Students everywhere are special people and this observer has discovered that Syrian students are among the very best.

Meeting and interviewing students again this past week, before and following, a frank and enlightening discussion with Dr. Mohammad Amer Al-Mardini, the indefatigable President of Damascus University...

Violence Stirs World for Women Victims!

Ever since Cain and Abel, violence has been viewed as "unacceptable". An educated public is an enlightened public. Let those Dark Ages cease for all time.

(SALEM) - The subject of "violence" resurfaced in the recent Newtown massacre of innocent children.

However, as a society we have yet to adequately address Violence Against Women. It can no longer be surreptitiously swept under the rug.

Eureka Winter

Houseless people continue to die and unnecessarily suffer.

(EUREKA) - Since winter started, people have died in Eureka because of the cold. Well, that's not what the coroner's office has documented, but that is the word on the street.

The temperature is what killed them, but insensitive policies might be more culpable than the winter weather.

Will Congress Fund Iron Dome Over Head Start?

The Iron Dome is a military project designed to make Israel invulnerable to air attacks.

(CHICAGO) - More than 13,000 delegates to the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) descended on Washington this week.

AIPAC, a lobby organization with no equal in American politics, had assembled its usual list of high-profile political leaders to address the delegates.

U.S. Resolution on Sri Lanka

Draft resolution HRC 22: Promoting Reconciliation and Accountability in Sri Lanka

(WASHINGTON DC) - PPI Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant instruments, (PP1 19/2)

The Loss of Innocence

Vision-Gram International’s focuses on preventing the conscription of child soldiers, reintegration of former child soldiers into society, and the proliferation of small arms and light weapons.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The use of child soldiers in combat has gone on for centuries.

Not only are boys recruited for various combat tasks, girls are also forced into combat situations as cooks, sex slaves, human shields and other demeaning activities.