UPDATED: By Denis Campbell
If you hold a passport from Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, countries considered “state sponsors of terrorism” or similar “countries of interest:” Afghanistan, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen… don’t plan on making your connecting flight any time soon to your final destination inside the USA.
The attempted underwear [...]

By Denis Campbell
Congratulations, you won. You have no more bottom line to manage or expenses to cut so time to focus on swiftly building Wales’ top line. One only need walk past your constituent office in Bridgend to see that 1 in 4 storefronts lay empty (or leased by charity thrift shops). Economic growth is [...]

 
by Denis Campbell 
Early May in The Netherlands is a time of painful remembrance and quiet contemplation. From Amersfoort to Alphen a/d Rijn, Zelhem to Zevenaar, at 8 pm on the Eve of Liberation Day the entire nation comes to a standstill for 2 minutes. Pictured is my 9-year old niece Ilse Bullee and other Scouts [...]

 
Air travel has become a rare experience for me. Where I used to travel weekly by airplane somewhere on business, since the start of this recession, I have taken only two trips. Yesterday began a third. I wanted to report on the differences now that we are in the teeth of it. How are the [...]

Now that Joe Biden may live this January in Naval Observatory Circle as Vice President that would free a seat daily on Amtrak’s Northeast corridor. But will it be enough? Amtrak ridership was up 14% in July and because of the high cost of petrol more than 28 million people (up from 25.6 million) will [...]

When you think European castles, England’s manor homes, France’s Chateaus or Germany’s baronial hilltop estates come first to mind. Rarely does one think of Holland, nor would it make the first cut on most castle shopping lists. Yet in Gelderland Province’s Zutphen County sits a tightly woven system of castles, open lands, forests and farms [...]

(Reprise article)
What I would give to just once hear the ESPN SportsCenter duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh theme here in eastern Holland’s Achterhoek region. Living in Europe means the death of the sports I grew up loving.
While America was intrigued and beguiled by outstanding performances on the Salt Lake City speed-skating oval, unless you live in Wisconsin or [...]