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One again I find that grand events turn on the smallest of details.  One could argue that World War II happened because humanity did not learn it’s lesson in World War I.  I venture to say the depth of the Great Depression was exacerbated by the Woodrow Wilson’s handling of events at the end of WW [...]

from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/the-very-angry-tea-party/ … When it comes to the Tea Party’s concrete policy proposals, things get fuzzier and more contradictory: keep the government out of health care, but leave Medicare alone; balance the budget, but don’t raise taxes; let individuals take care of themselves, but leave Social Security alone; and, of course, the paradoxical demand not [...]

from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/the-palin-brand/?hp In the midst of one of the most precipitous political crashes in the Mountain West, Sarah Palin made a mad dash into Boise on Friday… Vaughn Ward, the Republican congressional candidate from Idaho…When told that Puerto Rico was not a country, he said, “I don’t care what you call it.” On Tuesday, this [...]

The Earth is a living organism, often called Gaia.  You could say, that in a way, humanity is the nervous sytem of this collective.  If we dramatically improve the heath of a large number of individuals in the collective, the collective will improve. From http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/05/11/the-needs-of-the-many/ It is perhaps appropriate, following the triumphant relaunch of the [...]

A cute article from Monique Fields at TheRoot.com called Waking Simone. Seeing Obama, “the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas,” on television, giving a speech about where he plans to take this nation would be a memorable moment. I’d like to give my daughter, whose mother is black and [...]

We approach January 2009 and a new Presidential adminstration in the United States.  Soon it will be time to look back at the last eight years of government and evaluate it.  Here is a view from the movie “The U.S. vs. John Lennon” (2006): “Lennon was somebody who was a born enemy of those who govern [...]

From http://67.192.60.212/node/1064 Obama and the Palin Effect by Deepak Chopra Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former [...]

In the book “Tales From Q School” author John Feinstein tells the story of disabled pro golfer Casey Martin. Casey filed a lawsuit against the PGA Tour in order to allow him to use a golf cart during golf tournaments under the Americans With Disabilities Act. Casey has a degenerative disease in his leg called [...]

The Man in the Arena It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and [...]

New Jersey Mom Changes Yemin with Blog The internet has the ability to profoundly affect the world in a positive way when a lot of people tune in. Thoughts affect the consciousness. And consciousness affects reality. See “A Living-Room Crusade via Blogging” By Robert Worth. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Jane Novak, a 46-year-old stay-at-home mother of [...]