I think it’s broken.”  That’s what  Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said about the justice system when he testified before the House Appropriations subcommittee recently. (Click)  Despite agreement among experts in the scientific community as well as those working in th

Everyone’s attention is locked on to Hillary Clinton’s missing emails.  But what about Edward Susterich’s enquiry concerning the emails of  Scott Walker, the Governor of Wisconsin? Walker claims God advises him on the major decisions in his life, so Susterich decided to get to

In a recent blog, I quoted a Muslim woman who expressed her shock at the immodest use of a woman’s body in western advertising. (Blog 4/9/15)  She considered such women as slaves,  doing the bidding of corporations.  I disagreed and offered a brief rebuttal, but I should have wai

Edward Snowden’s leak about NSA data collection has raised a question for Americans to consider:  “In a technological world how do we defend our right to privacy?” But Sarah Ellison’s article, “The Man Who Kept The Secret,” raises a more pertinent one. “Are we fools to

I came across another example of the way our government parses words to obscure rather than clarify meaning.  In the past, readers may recall I had an exchange with a former staff member for Under Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, who served in the George W. Bush administration.�

On Tuesday, I quoted the comment of a Muslim woman who felt western commercial interests had enslaved women, convincing them to use their bodies to sell products.  “And they are made to believe that this is freedom.” (Blog 4/7/15)  Certainly, there is more than a grain of truth

The cliché is that “fact is stranger than fiction.” It isn’t, of course.  Fiction is unbounded by place, time, space and the laws of physics.  Yet when truth presses against the limits of reality, the effect can seem larger than fiction, overturning what we think we know.  M

Islam Yaken is a middle class Egyptian youth who gave up his dream of becoming a professional trainer when the economy in his country tanked.  As his alternative, he chose to became an Isis terrorists. (“The Deadly allure of jihad,” reprint from The New York Times in The Week, Ma

Two of the least effective words in the English language are “ought” and “should” which, when employed, are more likely to annoy rather than influence a person’s behavior.  If “ought’ and “ should” had any clout, obesity would be conquered, along with alcoholism and

A year ago, I made a reference to José Mujica, President of Uruguay — a man described as the world’s poorest president; a man, jailed for 14 years in the 1970s as a revolutionary; a man known world-wide as the humble leader of his people.  Elected to the country’s highest