Over time, March 17 became an exercise in avoiding the tens of thousands who chose to make a drunken spectacle of themselves…
My mother’s side of the family is Irish and, a million years ago, I attended St. Patrick’s grammar school here in New…
“For those who’ve come across the seas We’ve boundless plains to share” – Advance Australia Fair (Australia’s National Anthem) Ahmed (not his…
The critics and the news media panned it. Variety went so far as to say, “A rare case of blatant political propaganda…
Though no connection between Iraq and the terrorist attacks of September 11 has been found, the Bush administration has raised expectations significantly…
Much has changed since last September’s jetliner attacks but more has stayed the same. Beneath the outward sense of national unity engendered…
Something’s wrong with the kids. Childhood asthma incidence has doubled in the past decade. For children under five it increased by 160…
Its amazing how quickly an American President insensitive to the needs of ordinary Americans and the principle of fairness can lose the…
This past weekend I attended the “State of the Black World Conference” in Atlanta Georgia. Among those present were black activists, politicians,…
Someone held up a hand-painted red sign over the heads of the crowd at Bockstael square in Brussels. An arrow pointed straight…
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