"In Focus: From Abu-Fana to Al-Burullus Opinion By Khalil Al-Anani, June 10, 2008Egypt is boiling; this is the least one can say of the general conditions in Egypt. From Abu-Fana monastery, which witnessed violent clashes between Muslims and Copts less than two weeks ago, to...
An essay by editor of The Liberal magazine, Benjamin Ramm, exploring the meaning of Barack Obama's candidacy: ``Obama ’s unifying project aims to make the United States more than the sum of its parts – not a union divided and ruled, appeased and triangulated, but...
The Catholic League has gotten its knickers in a knot about the organizers of the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco. Apparently they don't like the fact that the last supper is being depicted as a place where...
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[October 30 update: I have added a link to a newly issued review that places an enormous question mark over any claim to scientific legitimacy that this exhibit may have had.]
The Los Angeles Times...
Ideas necessarily generate their opposites, making for conflict, and, often, violence. The hatred generated by such adversarial antitheses dehumanises humanity. That is why it is imperative to move away from ideas towards practice.
By MICHAEL GOLDFARB, June 17, 2007, New York Times
THIS is an obituary for a great American institution whose death was announced this week. After 155 years, Antioch College is closing.
Established in 1852 in...
Liberalism, which can occasionally breed great advances, was, in the main, prior to 9/11, only a frustrating form of self-absorbed and emotion-driven drivel that all modern societies must overcome to succeed and to prosper. The Bill Mahers, Ward Churchills and Michael Moores...
"The ex Supreme Court Justice John Major's appointed by Harper to conduct a public hearing into the Air India F.U. has discovered that like the Arar Inquiry the State has marshelled all their forces in a united front called National Security. The RCMP, CSIS, Foreign...
Either because he believes it to be true, or because he does not want to get the United States into a religious war against 1.6 billion Muslims, President Bush has many times taken pains to keep separate the radical Islamic killers from the overall Muslim community. Another...
Jurgen Habermas a modern political philosopher was a member of the Frankfurt School of Hegelian Marxism. His recent works on Public Potlitics challenges the theories of classic liberals and the current post-modernist communitarian ideology of identity politics. Extracts from...
More and more stations are either removing Air America from their line up, or putting it in later non-primetime slots. Air America has filed bankruptcy and has a 13 million dollar debt.
"That fact less preaching might be why advertisers are uninterested...
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Iran has said it will only hold direct talks with the US on Iraq if Washington announces plans to pull its troops out. Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian foreign minister, said the Islamic republic would also be willing to help the US withdraw its troops from the war-ravaged...
“The American people are fed up with the media for promoting the idea that former Vice President Al Gore represents the scientific “consensus” that SUV’s and the modern American way of life have somehow created a ‘climate emergency’ that...