UK troops deliver turbine in huge Afganistan mission

A small sign of progress and hope for Afghanistan"Almost three thousand British troops in southern Afghanistan have successfully transported a huge hydroelectric power turbine through Taleban territory. In one of...

MPs call for tougher hate-crime laws

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCanada has some of the toughest hate laws in the world, unfortunately, we have most of the spineless judges in the world, who do not have the intestinal fortitude to...

Night of the Living Fed

"Night of the Living Fed Paul Krugman is writing about The Face-Slap Theory."The scariest thing I’ve read recently is a speech given last week by Tim Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Geithner came as close as a Fed official can to...

Painting of Jolie [ala Virgin Mary, with kids] draws notice

"RALEIGH, N.C. - A North Carolina artist intrigued by the public obsession with celebrity has found herself feeding that obsession with a painting of actress Angelina Jolie as the Virgin Mary hovering over a...

Secular fundamentalists are the new totalitarians

An interesting piece in the UK Guardian, is sure to rile the feathers of the most enlightened and tolerant among us.  Of course they are, if you doubt it, just ask them."There's an aspiring totalitarianism in Britain which is brilliantly disguised. It's disguised because...

John chapter 14 verse 5

"John 14:5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? When Thomas asked unto Jesus Christ, we know not whither thou goest he was probably wandering on the physical platform of life. For Thomas to understand the intricacies of the...

Activist Protesting the Iraq War Burns Himself Alive

This story has really slipped through the cracks. It sounds like Chicago 's local media blew off the story because they thought the man was mentally ill. Even, so, a man lighting himself on fire in front a packed Expressway seems like a pretty big story, locally speaking. ...

Jesus On Taxes

"...this website where you may learn what Jesus said and did vis-a-vis taxes and tax collectors..."

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