Columns

According to The Guardian newspaper, 5,900 active-duty U.S. troops were deployed to the border with Mexico eight days before the midterm elections, seeking to inject fears over immigration into the campaign, and to ensure the president goes down in the history books as the man who saved America from a couple of truckloads of unarmed women and children.

We all know that software and cyber technology with all its magical twists, permutations and applications will be at the helm of taking us into the future.

It’s time for my recommendations for Christmas. For all of our griping about how Christmas has changed from the days we were getting gifts of oranges, handkerchiefs, cufflinks, stockings and ties (and what man didn’t want a LOL Santa tie with his nose lighting up?), the truth is the yuletide season really isn’t commercial enough, according to those people who understand the economics.

“El Chapo,” the alleged drug cartel chieftain, is having his day in a U.S. court right now. He’s claiming innocence, and his formal defense, according to many sources, is that he was framed by a vast conspiracy.

The Supreme Court ruled last week that a ban on cockfights approved by the Veracruz Congress two years ago is constitutional.  Cockadoodle-do vs. The State of Veracruz.

“It’s the past that tells us who we are,” Stephen Hawking told a conference at Harvard years ago. “That’s where you get your identity.”