From Larry Wohlgemuth… It’s bound to happen. Eventually someone who served in Iraq or Afghanistan will move into your neighborhood, maybe even next door, and you’re going to wonder. You’ll wonder whether your children are safe, and what’s going to happen to your property values. But you’re going to wonder. It was never part of [...]

While the so-called “9/11 mosque”, which is actually instead an Islamic community center, has merits on both sides of the conversation regarding its existence, the conversation should not even be occurring, let alone at the level or with the furor that it currently holds. The simple answer to the situation is Freedom of Religion, via [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… Now at the very beginnings of a new millennia, working class citizens continue to live a life of permanent insecurity never being sure that the current job will last or how much longer they will be able to live in their rented houses. The experience of living in fear continues to [...]

From Saudi Arabia Corespondent Eman Al Nafjan… Ok I took a break and I learned something about myself. I’m a polygamist, I’ve married this blog over the father of my children and now I’m attached to it and cannot stay away too long from my spoiled second husband, let alone two months. If I try, [...]

“ Mr. Speaker, we are now in chapter 11. Members of Congress are officially presiding over the greatest reorganization of any bankrupt entity in history”… Congressman James Traficant March 17th 1993 I’m afraid that those words uttered by congressman James Traficant, back in 1993 were true. In fact this was not the first time that [...]

From Tanzania Corespondent Lute Wa Lutengano… I have failed not to write something about football. After all, all talk now is about the ‘beautiful game’ taking place in ‘Ku-Joni’ as my tribal ancestors used to call what is now the land of Madiba a.k.a. Mandela – South Africa. You see where I come from in [...]

From Indonesia / Bangladesh Corespondent Rezwan… This is a story of any developing country where the rich and powerful reign and the the people do not exercise or do not have their equal right. I was surprised to see some street vendors trying to sell a photocopy version of an edition of Tempo news magazine [...]

From Special Guest Iman Assad… I can see life smiling at me and hear its words of love. I am fully present with my body and soul, totally committed to my dreams, not losing a single precious moment, living every instant with dedication and clarity of mind…. I have no doubts, I trust life and [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… The summer, for most of my life, has always meant time on the family farm. Sitting in the same house where my father was raised, the same house in which my grandfather was born, and the same house my great grandfather built with his own hands with timber from the trees [...]

From Larry Wohlgemuth… 72 virgins is the going Islamic rate to get a man to drive a car filled with explosives into a group of Americans. It must be true, it has to be true, because that’s what our leaders have told us. They want us to believe it’s about the deviant sexual desire of [...]