Commentary

Just maybe you will be able to tell

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:15:28 +0000

Free corn

something to think about

A chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange
students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Prof
noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and
stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student
told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting
communists, in his native country, who were trying to overthrow his

Religious Tolerance Forum Hosted By the King of Saudi Arabia

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:52:56 +0000

Saudi Arabia initiated inter-religious meeting at the United Nations this week. King Abdullah called his initiative a “Culture of Peace Summit,” to promote tolerance among the world’s major religions. Participants who gathered in New York on Wednesday and Thursday called for promoting mutual understanding and tolerance, through dialogue. Among those who attended are leaders from Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt, Britain, Spain and the Philippines, said Enrique Yeves, spokesman for U.N. General Assembly president Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann.

Religious Tolerance Forum Hosted By the King of Saudi Arabia

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:31:25 +0000

They're Remodeling the Arch And No One Cares

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:13:09 +0000

As I sat in the Steinberg auditorium on Friday night waiting for the start of a panel discussion on the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, I wondered where the crowd might be. The panel discussion was part of this weekend's student charrette sponsored by the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Transportation Engineering Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and featured the public match-up of Danforth Foundation President Peter Sortino and Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Superintendent Tom Bradley. Joining the panel were moderator Robert Duffy of the St.

Obama Is No Country Song

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:04:02 +0000

The opinion community has embraced Obama in a brotherly hug, a lover’s arms, a worshipers supplication, an enemy’s arm’s length grip and in a madman’s clutching. The millions of words swirling in a maelstrom, running hot and cold, all true and all false: Obama, champion of the common man. Obama, the elite’s new face. Obama, the hoped for. Obama, the unknown.

Obama Wins. Where from Here? Peaceworks' Perspective

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:53:54 +0000

Hello friends,

This week we depart from our usual Updates format. We will be sending an event update with Nook News in a day or two. We do want to remind you that our Annual Dinner is this Saturday, Nov. 15. Details are at http://www.midmopeaceworks.org/events.php#258

WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA TOLD THE DEMOCRATIC US CONGRESS, ~ LET MY PEOPLE GO !

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:29:04 +0000

SADLY, THIS IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF THESE SPECIFIC INJUSTICES WITHIN OUR UNDERFUNDED JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT NEEDS...C*H*A*N*G*E.......

**** GOD'S HAND IS INVOLVED IN THIS ONE ****
WHEN THIS HORROR IS PROVEN TO BE A TRUE EVENT AFFECTING THE ENSLAVEMENT OF 2,500 POORER AMERICAN'S, THEN ALL OF AMERICA WILL BE WELL AWARE THAT THIS SAME EXACT TREATMENT OF THE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF OTHER POORER CITIZENS NATIONWIDE, NEEDS A FORMAL US CONGRESSIONAL AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATION !!!

lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com(424-247-2013)

The Death of Capitalism

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:35:48 +0000

About 150 years ago, a very brilliant man named Karl Marx, developed an analysis of capitalism that stated that it was doomed to failure like the preceding economic systems of slavery and feudalism. Also, he analyzed history as a continuing class struggle between the haves and have-nots. His ideas so frightened the capitalist class that today the very name of Karl Marx inspires fear in a majority of working class people around the world due to the unrelenting corporate propaganda against his ideas and the man himself.

Good, and Now Back to Work: Avoiding Cynicism and Overconfidence in the Age of Obama

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:58:22 +0000

Let me say this, to some of those on the left -- some of my friends and longtime compatriots in the struggle for social justice -- who yet insist that there is no difference between Obama and McCain, between Democrats and Republicans, between Biden and Palin: Screw you.

A Look Under the Hood at the (Potential) Obama Administration

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:39:18 +0000

Tuesday’s celebration hangovers have finally started to wear off, and the pieces are beginning to fall into place. Change will be coming to Washington in January, but it is difficult to decipher what form it will take. Early clues, however, suggest that Barack Obama’s administration will prove unlikely to alter the fundamental political machinery that has led us into war and economic turmoil. Below is a brief summary of Obama’s potential choices for a few key roles in his administration.