In the James Hilton novel, Lost Horizon, the High Lama reveals to his predecessor that a great storm is coming to engulf the world.  At the storm’s conclusion, the treasures of Shangri-La (heaven-on-Earth) were promised to emerge, thereby restoring a ravaged world.  In his prognostications, the spiritual leader also echoed Jesus Christ in predicting that [...]

The graphical representation below demonstrates far better than words the staggering growth of unemployment throughout the United States during the period from January 2007 to the present time.  With double-digit unemployment spreading like a contagion to virtually every state and locality in the United States, our nation’s recovery from the worst recession since the Great [...]

A message crafted by an ancient intelligence millennia ago…
 
encoded with a message critical to the hopes of all mankind…
 
transmitted to and dutifully recorded by human scribes…
 
who were unaware of the import of the words they were writing…
 
published in a collection of books that have been read, studied, and debated for centuries…
 
the true meaning of which [...]

In 1948, Communism and Socialism were on the rise in various parts of the world, and Americans were concerned about the spread of such political philosophies to our own shores.  The following cartoon, shown as a short subject in movie theaters at that time, exemplifies values still held by the majority of Americans.  Can you imagine any [...]

If you were hoping for a racy article a la its title, all hope dies aborning.  This isn’t the stuff of which blue movies are made.  It’s an examination of a disturbing issue whose tentacles are far-reaching, as it concerns the recent, alleged kidnappings of a group of Haitian children by American Baptist ministers who’d [...]

In the war on terrorism, our enemies have defined us as “The Great Satan,” an epithet suggestive of religious connotations vis a vis our way of life.  As with most things in this increasingly global, so-called politically correct society, we now find ourselves in a war of words that allegedly helps us discern our friends [...]

Twice recently, we have heard of by Al Qaeda’s planned attacks upon our commuter aircraft.  These threats have meet with nothing but perfunctory rhetoric from our Department of Homeland Security.  The enemy seems to know more about our security operations than those allegedly in charge of them.  The media, whose sense of responsibility I have [...]

In writing this article, I am inviting bushels of rotten tomatoes to be hurled at me through cyberspace.   Having had the real-life versions, and worse, tossed at me because I chose to voice my convictions peacefully and legally, I can deal with Internet insults from strangers.
 
I am a longtime proponent of Roe versus Wade.  I [...]

A year after Barack Obama’s inauguration brought “change to America,” an unexpected change has occurred in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  Republican Scott Brown, a heretofore obscure State Senator and real estate attorney, won election to the United States Senate by defeating Democrat Martha Coakley in the Special Election to fill the remaining three years of [...]

She cries, “Where have all Papa’s heroes gone?”
(David Bowie, Young Americans)
 
Recorded in 1974, Bowie’s incisive take on the American landscape included references to racism and Rosa Park’s renowned ride.  In penning that song, and particularly the line above, Bowie may very well have had Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in mind.  By 1968, we had [...]