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Rush singer and bassist Geddy Lee revealed that he and guitarist Alex Lifeson were forbidden from using a slogan they’d come up with for the launch of their branded beer. Rush Canadian Golden Ale weighs in at 5.5% ABV, and the can features the Starman artwork from the classic album 2112, along with the tagline “Books are for tourists.” But in a new interview with Classic Rock, Lee revealed those words aren't the ones they wanted to be inscribed above the graphic. “Rush fans like beer,” he said. “Hendersons approached us during the pandemic and said, ‘If you’re interested, then...

About 200 Canadian protesters gathered to demand George W. Bush’s arrest Thursday when the former president attended an economic forum near Vancouver, Canada’s CTV reported. Protesters repeated familiar cries, calling Bush a “war criminal” and accusing him of torture. They linked arms outside the forum site and chanted to the watching police officers: “Do your job and enforce the law!” Demonstrators shouted “shame” as Bush came and went from the summit, which was also attended by former President Bill Clinton. The duration of the forum passed without incident, though that didn’t put a damper on protester theatrics, some of whom...

South Texas is not only going to get its first interstate - it is also going to get a second and a third. State transportation officials knew one of three southern highways - U.S. Highway 281 in Hidalgo County, U.S. Highway 77 in Cameron County or U.S. Highway 59 in Webb County - would eventually become part of an interstate stretching from the Texas-Mexico border to Texarkana, in the northeast part of the state. Only Webb County is currently served by an interstate. The state's Trans-Texas Corridor plan calls for an Interstate 69 extension linking South Texas to points north,...

"The NAFTA Superhighway stops here, at the border with Oklahoma," Randy Brogdon, a Republican state senator who has championed the fight to keep the Trans-Texas Corridor out of Oklahoma, told a packed 300-person audience at the first public meeting of OK-SAFE in Tulsa on Saturday. Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise, Inc. is a non-profit, Oklahoma corporation set up to oppose the NAFTA Superhighway and the North American Union, as threats to the sovereignty of the United States. Brogdon objected to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America www.spp.gov, arguing that President Bush had entered the agreement after secret...

North America's oldest church may lie beneath a small town in Newfoundland, according to information cobbled together from the research of a historian who recently died before publishing her seminal work. "To describe Alwyn Ruddock's claims as revolutionary would not be an exaggeration," Jones said. "If Ruddock is right, it means that the remains of the only medieval church in North America may still lie buried under the modern town of Carbonear."Ruddock, a historian with the University of London, was one of the world's foremost experts on Cabot's voyages until her death in late 2005. In keeping with her will,...

They appear in greater numbers as each city is secured. One can listen to the pundits on scene, read the comments of the columnists, but to grasp what this war was really about one only needs to look in their eyes. It’s tempting to opine that they can’t truly grasp the events surrounding them; that they’re simply responding to the mindset of an excited street. Step back and look again. You cannot dismiss the eyes of a child. Untouched yet by adult cynicism, they reveal truth that only the boundless hope of innocence can communicate. A young Iraqi girl, her...