Las Vegas is a good option when Disneyland gets old and you want to try something you and the kids can enjoy together. The first thing you will need to keep in mind is that you will not be able to do and see some of the adult venues with the kids, but you can […]
The fast pace of the world we live in today, a pace which gets even faster and more demanding by the day, cannot be particularly healthy to the human frame. Everywhere you turn to there are deadlines to be met, bills to be paid, bosses to kiss up to and please, politically correct behaviors to […]
Science and Technology have been put to many great uses. There is hardly any aspect of our daily lives that scientific advancements have not affected. It is, therefore, little wonder that science and technology are now being employed in the fight against the effects of aging. While nothing as at yet can be done about […]
It was a dream-come-true for me to visit Oxford. I have wanted to study there ever since I was a child. I still have not achieved that, but the visit was almost as magical. Mystical, magical, and drenched in history, Oxford is an explorer’s delight. An hour’s train ride away from London is over before […]
Iran appears to be coming out of a long period of isolation and sanctions imposed by Western nations. Yet, it is still not completely out of the woods. The international community had to wait until June 30 for the final deal to be put into place. The framework of the nuclear deal reached between the U.S.-led […]
As street fighting in Yemen intensifies, Russia has demanded an early emergency session of the U.N. Security Council to halt airstrikes by Saudi-led forces that are badly hurting the civilian population of the impoverished nation. Why are Saudi aircrafts bombing Yemen? Why has an internal civil war in Yemen turned into a proxy war between […]
I could never be a police officer. Imagine the type of control it takes just to make a regular, “Your blinker is broken,” traffic stop. You hit the lights and the big, black SUV with the tinted out windows slowly pulls off to the side of the road. You are pulling them over because you […]
India-China border stand-off continues where it has been for the past 50 years despite Chinese and Indian political leadership visiting and signing many agreements. The last few months have witnessed an increase in incursions by Chinese military into western, middle and eastern sectors of India. The Indian political leadership attributes such incidents to difference of […]
When gathering materials for my articles, I tend to focus on the injustices that have been done to Africans and African-Americans. As an African-American myself, I think that all African-Americans should have a complete understanding of the injustices done to us by having knowledge of our history before, during, and after slavery. The famed Tuskegee […]
Recycling should be among the resolutions we all make for ourselves when January 1 rolls around. It would be making a resolution for the world around us, as well as ourselves. What if, instead of making a promise to ourselves, we made a promise to our planet to take better care of it? Wouldn’t that […]