"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
(Reuters photo: A Tamil refugee prepares to bathe alongside the fence inside a refugee camp.) “UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said Friday she feared both sides could be guilty of war crimes in the Sri Lanka conflict and that more than…
Sharif Abdullah of the Commonway Institute in Portland, Oregon offers a tele-seminar titled, “Catalyzing Our Relational World: Building the Lifeboat.”  The five-session seminar will be held Tuesday evenings beginning January 27, and will preview the contents of his forthcoming book,…
Keithng photo This is a severely abbreviated selection from a post about a trip to Batticaloa Sri Lanka while it was under siege in 1998. The full version is available here. It is Part 22 in a series. The small city of Batticaloa sat…
(Astromario image: Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here album cover.) My friend Sharif Abdullah argues that the financial markets– the “red market”– is overrated. It’s neither the largest nor is it the most important of the five markets he identifies.…
(Eschlabach photo.) “How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the…
(Photo source.) “Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn”¦.” (Isaiah…