What if right wing, conservative Christians are not really in the majority in America What if adherents of other belief systems tend to remain silent because they think theyre overwhelmingly outnumbered What if there is another kind of morality that has more in common with people of ...

Whether God sent a judgment to New Orleans for its sinfulness is open to debate and perhaps there is no way of knowing that answer until the fat lady sings. What Ray Nagin said about New Orleans being a chocolate city is a bit easier to weigh and it weighs in under the lightweight catego ...

There have been some incredible developments in optical technology in recent years. One of the most interesting new products comes from a company called Torrey Pines Logic. It has been developed in partnership with the United States Navy, and it is currently being field tested for use ...

Well Darlings, If you're reading this I guess your anti-virus software is up to date and you've not been hit by the latest virus that's been doing the rounds on the Internet. Called a variety of names: Win32/Mywife.E@mm, Nyxem, Blackdoom, Blackworm, W32.Blackma ...

One of the great fallacies abroad is thinking that any regime today can lay claim to being democratic. None are. Though we say they are democratic and that they are democracies, they are actually republican governmentrepresentative democracies. This means that certain people are elected ...

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." John Kenneth Galbraith Oh, how true! When you have a problem in your personal life, does your options for solving that problem come down to the lesser of two evils Probably so ...

Well Darlings, The day started strangely. It was the morning after the night before, as my head so kindly reminded me on trying to wake. There were words rattling around in my brain as it was attempting, with little success, to stack them somewhere for later reference. It was as if they ...

In the wake of the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, and the news that approximately 24% of American Jews (an increased, but still relatively small percentage) voted for George W. Bush, it is, I believe, an appropriate time to examine (not for the first time, of course) the phenomenon of ...

During the Colonial Period, when whites battled between Indians, the Pequot, a warlike tribe that settled in the center along the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut, against New England settlers, and because of the struggle Governor John Endicott of Massachusetts Bay Colony organiz ...

When disaster strikes, why does law and order break down almost immediately Whether it is a natural or man-made event, why do the people in the vicinity sudenly act as though laws don't exist During electricity failures some cities experience looting. In the aftermath of Hurricane Kat ...

Writing about Wahabism and Salafi-Islam, could fill many books. I will however in this article, try to make clear why it is of tremendous importance in our time. Both movements are considered as the origin of Islamic terrorism. A lot of recent Islamic terrorists such as Osama Bin Laden, ...

Consider the presidential election system we have today: Every state has a number of electors, equal to their amount of representatives and senators, who vote for the President of the United States. In most states, every elector goes to the candidate who achieves the most popular votes, ...

Well Darlings, I think something has gone wrong with our solar system. Could we be stuck with a permanent full moon I mean, there must be something to account for all the lunacy I've seen lately. We have nutters calling for Romeo and Juliet to no longer be a passionate play in our schoo ...

I am sure some of you remember Brewsters Millions, the popular 80s movie starring the late Richard Prior. During this movie Monty Brewster needs to spend $30 million in 30 days to try and get his real inheritance of $300 million. In an effort for this to happen he joins in on the mayor ...

I hate it when Saddam Hussein gets proved to be right ... Buried in all his pre-invasion bluster was a promise that Iraqis would give the Americans 'another Viet Nam' if they tried to occupy the country. To many, this sounded like just another empty threat, but I took note when he said ...

Auschwitz was the most notorious of the Nazi labor camps in WWII. There, a man or woman could expect to be sent to the gas chamber at any moment, used for medical experiments or given a phenol injection to the heart which would cause death in 15 seconds. If you were lucky you would be ...

The worst week in the life of the radio stations scheduling department is the week before election day. Every local, regional and national candidate expects to purchase as much air time as they can afford and demand the station find room on the daily commercial log for their message. The ...

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Every non-profit organization has the best of intent to promote and foster a greater good in our communities. The time spent raising dollars, dealing with administration tasks and actually helping people take precedent over the important component of advertising and promotion. Did you kn ...

There are a handful of countries that are still considered communist regimes. Yet communism doesn't really exist. These countries are more like dictatorships with authoritarian type leaders who operate under the very thin veil of non-existent communism. These groups or individual le ...