In the morning as that alarm clock blares I shoot out of bed like bullet with a sudden, mysteriously founded burst of energy, as I quite literally whack my alarm off and scramble to my morning routine. But that sudden burst of energy goes as quickly as it came and I know the only thing […]
Read the article here. The majority of U.S. aid is being held up in Congress by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). The AP found that $874 million of the funds pledged by other countries at the donors conference was money already promised to Haiti for work or aid before the quake. An additional $1.13 million wasn’t […]
According to the most recent Gallup Poll of people’s ever increasing distrust in the mass media. From 46% in 1998, the percentage of people who indicate they have “not very much/none at all” trust in mass media has grown to a stunning 57% currently. This is an all time record, as the general public perception toward the MSM has flipped over the past decade.
Coming from me, a defense of Barack Obama may surprise my readers. That’s because they may not have read the fine print! Some of his policies I haven’t exactly agreed with (principally, the expensive health care reform, which at a time of rapidly rising sovereign debt, was imprudent). I reluctantly supported Obama for president in 2008 […]
Hezbollah’s leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has openly stated that he expects some members of his political party will be indicted, but he vows not to hand them over to be prosecuted. Pro-Syrian Christian politician Suleiman Franjieh recently stated in a television interview on September 23 that if Hezbollah members are indicted “there will be war in Lebanon.”
Last week I participated in a Department of Defense sponsored Bloggers roundtable. The occasion was the announcement of the first graduating class of the female Officer Candidate Course (OCS) for the Afghan Army. There were 29 graduates of the 20 week course and they will join the nearly 300 women already serving in the Afghan […]
There are more than a few problems in the People’s Republic of China, to be sure, but the one to which I’m referring here is pollution. I went to an event last week sponsored by the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (ICET) and hosted by the India China Institute as part of Climate Week […]
Dr. Kostas Stamoulis is the Director of the Agricultural Development Economics Division of the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Dr. Stamoulis’s department produces the annual FAO publication, “The State of Food Insecurity in the World,” whose most recent edition, to be published in October, will indicate that the number of hungry people around the […]
In the wake of journalists recently murdered in Mexico, the country’s president, Felipe Calderon met with two international press organizations last week for recommendations on how to stop the violence. The meeting with the Inter-American Press Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reportedly had a positive tone and Calderon promised to do what […]
This Spring I brought you the piece, Bulling is Abuse, regarding the case of 15 year-old Phoebe Prince who committed suicide in Boston following her bulling. Now with technology in every child’s hands bullying is even easier, quicker and can be more widespread with only a click of a button or mouse. Children text images and rumors, […]
Taste, cost, health benefits, nutritional value, accessibility and the speed of production. These factors, in no particular order, are fueling the debate between industrially produced food and organic food. Looking at both sides of the debate, Time Magazine asks readers to consider what the production of food means to the well-being of those who eat […]
Dr. Mitch Besser’s inspiring TED talk from Oxford has recently been posted on the TED website. “In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV infections are more prevalent and doctors scarcer than anywhere else in the world. With a lack of medical professionals, Mitchell Besser enlisted the help of his patients to create mothers2mothers — an extraordinary network of HIV-positive […]
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