Category: Reflections

Responding to the Republican House bill on immigration reform, Senator Hillary Clinton said that the bill, which penalizes not only illegal immigrants but also Americans …

Sectarian strife spilled over into the music industry March 20 when the Christian Music Trade Association (CMTA) fired a salvo at the generally unarmed God-fearing …

According to several news outlets, Rep. Cynthia McKinney The “apology” consists of a couple of expressions of “regret,” and ends: “I apologize.” Not “I apologize …

According to a Wall Street Journal editorial (April 1), the court’s opinion on Hamdan v. Rumsfield, due in late June, as to whether or not …

A coyote was spotted in Central Park in Manhattan in late March, loping through the mini-wilderness of Hallet Sanctuary, a wooded island at the south …

There is a tendency among libertarians to deny that the globe is warming or, more commonly now, that the warming is caused by human agency. …

On March 22, the world’s oldest conscious being, Adwaitya (“The One and Only”), an Aldabra Giant Tortoise, died of liver failure at the Calcutta Zoo. …

Scene: a rural hospital in the Congo. A man lies on a bed, vomiting, bleeding, dying. He is only the first: already three more with …

That supreme satirist William Schwenk Gilbert – of Gilbert and Sullivan fame – once remarked that “things are seldom what they seem – skim milk …

In Paris and Nantes, a student revolt simmered for months, then boiled over in May of 1968. Students and activists of that generation became known …