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Wonderment and surprise turn naturally to resignation as the results of the November 2006 elections are tallied and the Democrats win strongly across the country. Hope lives on as Republicans have worked well in the past as a minor party, keeping the Democrats on their toes to an adaquate extent at least. Then hope turns [...]

Are we trying to win peoples’ hearts and minds or are we freeing them from terror? Hugh Hewitt at Townhall.com has written regarding the failure of our leaders to lead to victory in the War on Terror.
With my english language news limited to CNN World and BBC World these weeks in Italy, I must report [...]

There is a distinct difference between what a business must do and what it can do. An organism or organization must do what is necessary only to survive: for a living organism that includes intake of energy and defensive acts of self-preservation, for an organization that includes intake of money. An organism or an organization [...]

How do you know somebody can be trusted? How does one earn trust? How does one lose trust? If someone you count as a friend did something to cause you to lose trust, what kind of forgiveness, recompense, or other actions or changes must be made? How do you know when you can trust them [...]

I thought I’d posted this some time ago. Ah well… better late than never.
Very pluralistic, from a Christian perspective there is plenty to find wrong here. I hate the necessity of pragmatism, but from a pragmatic perspective, this was a home run.The Rev. Barry Lynn, ordained minister of the United Church of Christ and chief [...]

There is a push today to limit human suffering, to prevent any pain from occurring at all. This cringing drive is so rabid that a father sues his daughters’ school when she is stung by a bee on the school yard. There are schools refusing to allow recess, there are schools sanitizing their play equipment, [...]