Here in Ireland there will be a Presidential election on the 27 October.
This morning as I was watching last night’s Craig Ferguson Show that we tape since we can’t stay up that late, his monologue struck a chord with me.
He stated that he’s been feeling rather depressed lately, and I have...
It would appear that the "Powers To Be" have just been waiting for the chance to implement the mandatory use of Full Body Scanners at every major Airport... Can't you just picture Dick Cheney making this statement to all the...
I have been in Christchurch for over two years now. I have got to know the people and the city. It is a fairly staid sort of place, the people are not prone to bouts of flamboyant expression but...
I. History of Nowruz
Imagine it’s the fifth century before the Common Era, on a plain bejeweled with a magnificent palace complex and flowing gardens, with the coffee brown Zagros mountains in the distance, and a sky the color of...
He was the greatest leader of my lifetime...
As a student at the University of Colorado in the 1970s, I was part of an effort that fought against apartheid and urged my university to divest. Eventually it did.
As a journalist...
Since the 13 Aban demonstrations nearly a month ago, the international nuclear debate has been ratcheted up, and the domestic scene of the Islamic Republic of Iran keeps lurching further into the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' blood-soaked hands. From...
Cuba and the US have had a long history of adversarial relations. Yet we have diplomatic relations with Vietnam. Cuba didn't kill 50,000 Americans, but we have ostracized Cuba! Why? Why have we not done what President Obama has just done long ago?
Good Morning Everyone and welcome to the 7th anniversary edition of Morning Blog.
Émile Zola wrote an open letter to then president of France in 1898 that was published on the front page of L'Aurore, a liberal paper. It was concerning the scapegoating to cover up corruption and espionage in the military...
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Florida – Where Book Banning Flourishes
It’s obvious what rankles Ms. Salinis; she is an illiterate troglodyte who couldn’t handle seeing a young Black female reciting a poem of hope for this country. Nothing in Amanda’s poem remotely suggests what she claims justifies having this book banned. She is an opportunist taking advantage of the dumbass laws DeSantis pushed through his State Legislature to make Florida an autocratic state.
