Commentaries

After having attended a sold-out and inspirational Handel’s Messiah, one was left to reflect upon the well-attended, enthusiastic and inspired crowd. In an age where much entertainment is reduced to sound bites and portable electronic devices, it was amazing to observe the great number who attended a two hour long musical performance.

NEET is a term coined by the United Kingdom government that describes youth between the ages 16 through 24 who are “Not in Education, Employment, or Training.” It refers to 19 million young people throughout the seventeen-country Eurozone. This sad statistic is only a segment of the total unemployed.

While China's Communist leaders are obsessed with economic power, it does so at great expense.

City officials in Brussels have announced that the traditional Christmas tree will not be displayed in the public square due to concerns that it might offend the minority Muslim population.

In a bizarre act of barbaric execution, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has purged one of his countries top generals for an unauthorized activity – having a drink. For his punishment, the vice minister of the North Korean Army Gen. Kim Chol, has been executed by a mortar round.

With newly released data clearly demonstrating that global warming stopped 16 years ago, why does the Environmental Protection Agency’s Carol Browner claim that, by “reducing our dependence on fossil-fuels we can lessen the growing threats posed by global warming?”

A major American firm lamentably went bankrupt as many do. These things are to be expected in the present financial climate. However, from a cultural point of view, this particular failure, and the manner in which it happened, resonated deeply inside the American soul. Its demise signaled the closing of an era.

With the myth of global warming being seriously questioned, environmentalists can at least take comfort in proclaiming the good they do by promoting electric cars. After all, there are no dirty exhaust pipes emitting noxious fumes because they run on clean electricity, right?

For years, traditional marriage advocates have warned that same-sex “marriage” is just one more step down the slippery slope that will allow every conceivable aberration to follow. Once marriage is reduced to a relationship and not a stable union for the procreation and education of children, any relationship can be called marriage or a union.