Bob Richards

I recall years ago watching the 1st, Home Alone movie,  and the boy star, Macaulay Culkin , who  to a store clerk, who questioned if he was  alone, exclaimed in a tone of defiant confidence, "I don't think so!" To Harold Camping and followers  who claimed they've got pegged down the date of the world's end I'd say the same, "I DON'T THINK SO!"  In saying this however I do not make light of Christian beliefs  which holds there'll some day be some type of new world, an end and yes a new type of beginning.  I say without apology that I consider myself a Christian and the belief that Christ will some day govern the world has been a standard belief of Christians for thousands of years.   The troubling thing about Camping and his followers is why they'd consider it wise, in light of the very scriptures they claim to treasure and hold dear, that they'd take a position which very clearly stands contrary to the very thing Jesus Chr...

On May 2, 2011,  Prime Minister Stephen Harper won a majority government in Canada. I thought I'd like to do a piece  on the journey of a party which seems has gone FULL CIRCLE , and the period of time it took to bring it about. As the saying goes, once upon a time, and  in a country just north of the great USofA  there was in Canada a Conservative majority government.  It's important to understand as one considers the political spectrum of parties, things of the same name may have different meaning from country to country.  To explain the United States of America has the Republican Party which are known to be conservatives. One should not consider the Conservative Party of Canada as sharing exactly the same values as the U.S. Republicans.  The Conservative Party of Canada believes in universal health care for all of it's citizens something the U.S Democrats have long sought to establish. A U.S. President, having ...