For what? For total control of oil and other natural resources on someone else's land. For global hegemony. For lies and deceit sold to Americans and the rest of the world.   It matters not if citizens in other countries protest that they do not want US military bases on their land. Last month,...

This week, the buzz in the Catholic blogosphere is over certain actions being undertaken by the state legislature of Connecticut, as they relate to the administration of dioceses and parishes of the Catholic Church in that state. Not all the churches. Not some of the churches. Only the Catholic Chur...

Honda reveals economic Insight, Fla. sugar deal sours, EPA may require CO2 reports, coal ash keeps spilling, automakers drive hard bargain, and the coast isn't clear....

The Department of Transportation's High Speed Ground Transportation (HSGT) program aims to finance high-speed rail connecting major urban centers at distances of 100 to 500 miles, with trains running at 150 - 250 mph.  But a Washington Post front-pager offers disquieting numbers that give ...

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I have been thinking about doing this kind of trip since I was an art professor at the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, in Fall 2006, drawing in the "Forest of Love", at the edge of the village of Pont-Aven (made famous by Paul Gauguin and friends).  I took two groups last year ...

"It used to be that going to America was a dream. No more," said Raheem, 56, a former teacher and experienced reporter who is one of the local cast of journalists, interpreters, drivers, guards, technicians and general fix-it men and women who have kept The Times running here since the war began. Th...

Note: I taught a Sunday School on Church History in 2004 in New Hampshire. Starting in February I'll be teaching the same course here in Virginia. So any posts, including the one below, and especially for the first half of the series, are more or less repeats. Church History Lesson 1 (Introduction) ...

Updated. Has it even been established that the guy who took Michelle Obama's picture with his cell phone camera when she was serving lunch at Miriam's Kitchen was homeless or there for the free meal? Jesse Taylor and Alex Koppleman, among others, have explained to the self-righteously indignant why ...

The Washington Institute just published a piece by Richard Barrett, the head of the monitoring team for the UN's 1267 al Qaeda/Taliban Committee. Richard's piece discusses how al Qaeda has responded to -- and tried to take advantage of -- the global financial crisis. Here is an excerpt: The deepenin...