Geek snags Pope domain name

Tech geek and author Roger Cadenhead registered the domain name   a few week ago. Visitors to the site were redirected to Cadenhead’s website, on which he rejects the suggestion that he might be planning to cash in by selling…

Same-sex civil unions become law in Connecticut

With the new law, Connecticut joins Vermont and Massachusetts as the only states with laws that provide far-reaching benefits to same-sex couples. Vermont recognizes civil unions and Massachusetts has gay marriage, but the laws were enacted only after court fights.…

Epoch Times

Sue and I were walking down the street in L.A. when she saw a newspaper stand with a free well-designed glossy paper called Epoch Times. I scanned the front page, saw an odd headline about the collapse of the Communist…

A Socialist Senator?

VT: Sanders to replace Jeffords?. Here are my first thoughts about who will replace Jeffords. Independent Bernie Sanders has wanted to run for the senate for years. I expect him to do so and win. Bernie Sanders is a long…

The question of nonviolence

 From D.J. Mitchell A friend of mine told me he’s seen a bumper sticker: Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don’t.   That indeed would seem to be the fallacy in traditional pacifism. It is…

Podcast: Jaber Suleiman, Forum on Lebanon, Syria & U.S.

Speech by Jaber Suleiman, co-founder of Aidoun (Returnees) Group in Lebanon and Syria. Suleiman is a Palestinian refugee who lives in Ein el-Hilweh, Lebanon. He has been engaged in the Palestinian struggle in Lebanon for many years. He was a…

The new Pope

Tradition and orthodoxy will surely be the hallmarks of the new pontificate. Benedict not only condemns homosexuality as “an intrinsic moral evil” but also has suggested that Catholic altars should face east, to Jerusalem. As John Paul’s “enforcer” on matters…