If you look up the term, ‘Monroe Doctrine,’ Google describes it as, “a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States.”…

New York is feeling really, really green. The first recorded St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City was way back in 1762, and was organized by Irish soldiers serving in the British Army. It wasn’t much of a piss-up, and wouldn’t become one for another 100 years or so.…

As we move towards Daylight Savings Time, turns out the only thing we’re saving is daylight. Ben Franklin’s original idea was a good one. He reasoned that if we turned the clocks forward an hour in April, everyone would get an extra hour of daylight to work, to socialize, to…