This week the Canadian Government will take a vote on the Citizenship Act. I have been following closely. Bill C-3 is the latest iteration seeking to allow so-called "Lost Canadians" to claim their citizenship. The tap root, if you will, is heritage: The root that connects families through lineage from one generation to the next. The current law limits that lineage to first generation Canadians. How do you limit lineage? Pas possible! The final vote by the Senate is in debate as I write. It...

Supermoon from St Augustine Florida and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated” ― Thomas Paine, The Crisis The...

From the Greenwich Observatory, England In the 1950's, the reason given for "changing the clocks" twice a year, was the farmers needed more daylight. "The cows don't know what time it is!", said a long-time farmer after all these years. In the 1970's during a man-made "energy crisis", I rose early to get in long lines with my neighbors to buy my share of gasoline for the week. Daylight Savings, fell in line with saving energy by providing more daylight. Okay . . . if you say so. Here we are...