The United States has an ongoing public health problem: death due to guns. Although deaths due to guns have decreased…
When his students asked him to summarize the Biblical Law “while standing on one foot,” (briefly) Rabbi Hillel said, “What…
Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy is now complete. There will be no Democratic Senators from the former Confederacy in the new…
The Sunni-Shiite conflict in Iraq is as old as the country and even much older than that. It stems from…
Phil Robertson, 67, the patriarch of the Duck Dynasty family, has referred to Gays as “homosexual offenders” and noted that…
A further discussion about our South American adventure in November: After we visited the Galapagos we flew to Guyaquil, Ecuador,…
This is a missive about Steve’s ‘religious pilgrimage’ to the holy land of Charles Darwin. In November, 2013 we went…
The last few weeks of political activity fueled by “Tea Party conservatives” expressing a desire to shrink all government led…
I think you can tell the tongue-in-cheek flavor of this song sung to the melody of ‘The Yellow Rose of…
With the discovery of the Higgs’ Boson and the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Francois Englert and…