Peggy Quince said she'll focus on budget problems, bias, mentally ill prisoners and foster children after receiving the gavel Friday as the first black woman to head Florida's court system. ...more

June 28, 2008

Today, our minds are all taken up with the high price of gasoline and the rapidly rising price of food. Very little is mentioned about the deep concerns of a few months ago relative to Muslims and Islam. Even our president was trying to convince us that not all Muslims were bad, that it was a peaceful religion. This might be a true statement. However, Islam is not a religion or cult. It is a complete system of religious, legal, political and military components. The religious component is the "mask" or "cover" for the other components. When there are sufficient Muslims in a country, agitation for their religious rights begins and this is the start of the "Islamization" of that country. ...more

May 10, 2008

When my friends and I were bored in high school, we entertained ourselves with the word game Hangman. ...more

February 24, 2008

When she gets sick, Li Enlan, 78, picks herbs from the woods nearby instead of buying modern medicines. ...more

January 13, 2008

On the whole, Americans want their politicians to hew to the political center and govern with a healthy dose of pragmatism. Yet we live in the most bitterly partisan era in memory, when the dominant voices in both parties are more ideological and less willing to compromise, and the politics they practice too often is a mean-spirited, take-no-prisoners enterprise. ...more

December 31, 2007