December 13, 2022, 3:11 pm 26 comments in the last 30 days.
6 Crucial Business Travel Tips.

Business travel is an essential business aspect. Traveling for business allows you to network with other industry professionals while meeting new people and connecting with prospective customers.

June 3, 2023, 6:13 pm 23 comments in the last 30 days.
Disconnecting War from Its Consequences.

Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. Sanity lost in the House, 420-1. It lost in the Senate, 98-0. Barbara Lee’s lone vote for sanity remains a tiny light of courageous hope flickering in a chaotic world.

May 4, 2013, 11:13 am 4 comments in the last 30 days.
Sheriff's Department Takes Family's Home and Contents Using a Fake Eviction.

U.S. Navy veteran Ted Visner and his wife, Kathy Smith of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, have been living a nightmare for two and a half years.

January 15, 2013, 11:58 pm 2 comments in the last 30 days.
Frederica Jansz Interview Reveals Shocking Danger Facing Sri Lankan Journalists.

The new Al Jazeera video interview, Listening Post - Feature: Frederica Jansz: Sri Lanka's media crackdown, offers a direct line of sight into Sri Lanka's deadly, ongoing campaign against the media. Frederica was the editor for The Sunday Leader in Colombo and after years of remaining determined to stay and make a difference, she was forced to flee Sri Lanka in recent months and appeal for asylum. She is now living in an undisclosed location.

February 22, 2010, 3:00 pm 1 comments in the last 30 days.
A Life Well Lived: Samer Farid Abujoudeh.

In every community within a community, there are leaders. It is these men and women who rise to the call of their neighbors and loved ones, that tie together the fabric of their daily lives. They usually spend a lifetime earning their estimable admiration. Samer Farid Abujoudeh was such a man. Born October 11th, 1960, he lived in Jordan until he was 21.

January 22, 2010, 9:43 pm 1 comments in the last 30 days.
Heart Attacks.

Each year 300,000 people die of heart attacks on the way to the hospital. Many others die of heart attacks in their beds or while going about their daily lives.

April 16, 2011, 6:48 pm 1 comments in the last 30 days.
Mexico: The Hour of the Poet.

There are times in history when unexpected events suddenly alter the social landscape and change the political rules of the game. South of the border, the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio and the hotly disputed 2006 presidential election immediately come to mind.

July 3, 2007, 5:58 am 1 comments in the last 30 days.
Op-Ed: Bush's Prison Pardon of 'Scooter' Libby Stinks (VIDEO).

Lewis Libby is a real record holder. Scooter as he is known to his friends, was convicted recently in four of five felony counts of obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury. But this criminal convict friend of George W. Bush got his post conviction walking papers Monday. Scooter spending two and a half years in the slammer was just too much for the President to bear, so he "commuted" the prison sentence.

March 15, 2013, 5:06 pm 1 comments in the last 30 days.
Reactor Reax Top Stories - Washington Post: In U.S., Nuclear Energy Loses Momentum....

Today in Reactor Reax, nuclear energy is losing momentum in the U.S., amid economic head winds; in Fukushima Fallout, CBS News reports that the meltdown in Japan forced 170,000 people from their homes, many of them permanently.

February 3, 2021, 12:37 am 1 comments in the last 30 days.
Rumination on the Trump Deplorables.

Were we better off January 20 than we were four years ago? The answer is a definite “NO.” I am still trying, however, without much success, to understand why 74+ million Americans voted to re-elect Trump when for four years he has embarrassed himself and this nation with his ignorance, ineptness, and lack of human decency. During the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables.” Who are these deplorables?