Tag: politics
member name: Duane B.
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April 27, 2008 08:42 PM EDT --
Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Barak Obama's pastor appeared on Bill Moyer's Journal on PBS last week. I watched the full hour and found Rev. Wright, a former US Marine who cared for . . .
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July 11, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, has approved the release of an document that states that all other Christian denomination are either defective or not . . .
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November 27, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Merrill Lynch has published the 2006 World Wealth Report that provides some interesting details on the 9.5 million high net worth individuals (HNWI) in the world that have . . .
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March 17, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
We all know that we are in the middle of a sub prime home mortgage crisis that has developed into a general credit crisis that has generated the loss of trillions of dollars in the stock markets . . .
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May 26, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I was born in late 1940, almost a year to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, marking our entry into WWII. I contracted measles and chickenpox before . . .
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February 16, 2007 11:11 AM EST --
Would you like to pay more or less Federal Income taxes? It sounds like a silly question, but flat tax proposals would shift a sizable tax burden from the top 10% of personal taxpayers to the remaining . . .
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July 28, 2006 08:39 AM EDT --
The latest issue of Babytalk magazine, a free publication focusing on mothers of infants, has dared to break the Great American Breast Taboo. On the cover of a recent issue is a picture of . . .
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August 01, 2006 12:00 PM EDT --
I was counseling a forty something that was having problems with the women in his life. He was twice divorced and raising a son on his own. He was an entertainer who traveled the world . . .
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July 09, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --
The most current statistics indicate that thirty percent of the American adult population have been alcoholics, been dependent on alcohol or abused alcohol in their lifetime. An estimated . . .
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August 31, 2007 10:25 AM EDT --
The official report on the Virginia Tech shootings has been published and it contains details of Cho’s mental health history and treatment details. I am a retired therapist that . . .
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March 09, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --
The current massive lending/mortgage/credit crisis has spawned a new, but quite understandable, response on the part of the financially crunched hone owners: just locate a new place to live you . . .
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March 13, 2008 07:35 PM EDT --
Are the Democratic candidates going to immolate themselves, and the party, in their desire of being numero uno or will they curb their enthusiasm for the top slot on the November . . .
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August 05, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Sometimes just reading the individual captions of articles and columns in my local newspaper can be either informative or raise troubling questions. Today’s Sunday edition of my . . .
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December 08, 2007 01:12 PM EST --
William Saletan, writing in Slate, criticizes a study that appeared in Nature Neuroscience that concludes that “conservatives” are less intelligent, . . .
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March 21, 2006 01:38 PM EST --
First, let's get the bad news out of the way:
Poppy production is in full bloom (please excuse the pun). Estimates are that up to 90% of the world's heroin will be produced by this country . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
As I sit down to write this article, much of the Middle East is in crisis. Rockets are falling on Israel and bombs are falling in Lebanon. Hundreds of people have been killed on injured on . . .
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April 22, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
I was watching a call-in program on C-SPAN last Saturday morning when something happened that always annoys and disappoints me. The caller was a self-proclaimed conservative Republican . . .
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July 01, 2007 04:55 PM EDT --
The chief prosecutor of St Louis is preparing to release a report that took two years to develop that may show that convicted murderer Larry Griffin, executed in 1995, was innocent of the crime. . . .
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July 05, 2007 08:58 AM EDT --
Today, July 5, 2007 a CNN report on Al Gore repeated the accusation that he had claimed to have “invented” the Internet during his campaign for President. This accusation, which . . .
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December 14, 2007 04:29 PM EST --
The New Jersey legislature is set to pass a bill to abolish the death penalty and the Governor has said he will sign the bill into law, becoming the first state in forty years to . . .
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