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Black Catholic Americans…great contributions to our faith.
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral is always a favorite destination for Catholics and other visitors to New York City. Most of the time, people spend their time in prayer and admiration of the various works of art that adorn the ornate Gothic Cathedral. Catholic are familiar with the tradition that […]
One could argue that secular colleges undermine religious faith, but per the studies on which this article reports, Catholic students in Catholic colleges are largely similarly affected by higher education.
As one who has been saddened by the failure of the Catholic Church to reform itself, honest reporting will hopefully shake loose […]
Or so a large recent survey seems to show
Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being: Evidence from the U.S.A.
By Andrew J. Oswald and Stephen Wu
A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals’ subjective well-being. These are responses to questions—asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel—such as, “How happy […]
When I came to the Philippines, I ripped my CD collection into MP3’s and brought most of my collection here on mp3 CD’s or on my hard drive. I had a fairly nice collection of “elevator music” (to use my son’s description), mainly because I worked in rural areas where it was easier to listen […]
This is a guest post by author Jay Rankin. His debut book Under The Neon Sky takes us behind the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas. You can read my review here - Simon
Be True to Your Desires and Needs.
As the doorman to the largest hotel in the world, I could open just […]
“DOUBLEBACK” marks the return of P. I. Georgia Davis as well as another very good book by Libby Fischer Hellman. It also unites Georgia and Ellie Foreman (An Eye For Murder and others) in a case that resonates for parents everywhere.
It is a morning like any other in June when Molly Messenger is kidnapped. The […]
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
I have a very weird job. I explore aspects of society that people read about but would never consider exploring themselves. I go places where others may be led to because they didn’t know any better. And I like too expose the flaws in the system that make us vulnerable. Much […]
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
In “My Identity Thief Loves Me (PTI)” I brought you into my weird world of “research” into online dating scams. Here’s where I fell in love. I have been persued by “Kath Riss Green”. For whatever reason the scammers choose very WASPy names. But her picture was a hot Latina. She […]
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Premonitions?
I don’t believe in ESP, but I do take strong intuitions seriously. They are not always correct, but I suspect that they disclose things that we have either forgotten or not noticed consciously, e.g. body language of […]
The title of the article could well be ‘China’s arrival as a superpower’ to ‘When did China arrive as a superpower’ if that actually has already happened, catching many of us (including global journalists and policy-makers) napping.
‘Well, it was sort of expected but we never thought it could happen so fast’ is the usual […]
Even if Rifqa never goes back to live with her parents, she, as a Christian, needs to honor them. She needs to treat them with love and respect. That’s just a fact.
President Obama, who has overlooked various pork barrel spending projects placed into unrelated bills by the Congress, is reported to have decided to freeze the budget to NASA to prove he can cut the Federal Budget.
To put it bluntly, this means there is no money for the proposed Moon landing under his watch.
“This represents a […]
That’s what the intellectual elite think of working class conservative voters. They think that voting Left is OBVIOUSLY in the best interests of the workers and cannot understand that the base of support for the GOP is mainly among the less affluent. They think that working class people are cutting their […]
I am not bothered by our moving the trial of the 9/11 plotters out of Manhattan. The city is already jammed with traffic and such a well publicized trial could offer the temptation to set off a bomb in the area — not hard to do with all the delivery trucks […]
Seeing Tony Blair yesterday at the Iraq war enquiry made me realise just how good a politician he was – surely the best communicator of modern times and intellectually robust as well. But, and it’s a massive but, his driving force was (and is) utterly wrong. It wasn’t socialism, or Europeanism, or Anglo-Americanism or any […]
My wife and I lived happily in public housing for three years (430 W. 125th St. in lower West Harlem) when we were graduate students. We had been given the privilege of bypassing the waiting list by a program designed to desegregate our project (later discontinued because of this […]
Last week, we were stopped at a checkpoint while driving to the provincial capital for a doctor’s appointment.
Nothing new about that: We had a lot of checkpoints awhile back, when there was a move to find the last few NPA members who hadn’t come in from the cold and become normal “militant” activists.
But this checkpoint […]
Back in the 1970’s, Jimmy Carter was unlucky. He seemed to have a tin ear and do nothing right, and so Teddy Kennedy decided to rescue the party and run against him. Americans who saw the huge increase in gasoline prices, a sour economy, inflation that ate their savings, and mortgage rates of 12 percent, […]
It’s hard to decide how to start a review about this wonderful book. It is part memoir, chronicling the author’s journey through one of the worst nightmares a woman can face and part how-to: How to face the breast cancer from the first diagnosis, through finding the right doctor and the right treatment, to how […]
Thinking Outside The Box For Preteens
Our modern world is a wondrous place for a child to grow up in, there is so much to see, do, and learn. Alas it is also a world of the unexpected, a world where not everything is positive and fulfilling.
If you go into the Self Help section of any […]
Last week I noticed there was a pen collector’s convention that was held in Philadelphia. In the era of Blackberries, personal digital communicators, smart phones and Kindles competing with I Pads for market share and attention…the humble pen is often viewed as an antiquated technology in a world of glitzy gadgets. Whenever I think about […]
This is a guest post by author Jay Rankin. His debut book Under The Neon Sky takes us behind the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas. You can read my review here - Simon
I wrote a book titled, Under the Neon Sky, about my job at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. I […]
It is Jonah Goldberg’s book that has got them steamed — and steamed is the word. Most of the “critique” is little more than abuse, liberally leavened with unsupported assertions. What has got them steamed is that a recognition of the philosophical affinities between historical Fascism and modern “liberalism” has become […]
One of the major reasons that American jobs are in shorter supply is that more and more Americans are buying from our discount stores — large chains such as Target, Kmart, Cosgo, Walmart and the smaller 99¢ ones. These in turn are buying their products from the cheapest possible sources […]
Yesterday, the world was made aware of yet another reason that Venerable Pope John-Paul II should be advanced to the altars. Msgr. Slawomir Oder, in his book, Why A Saint? revealed spiritual aspects of the late Pope’s spiritual life previously unknown. Namely, John-Paul practiced acts of penitence and self denial in his pursuit of […]
In Wichita, Kansas they are facing a huge up tick in burglaries. Generally, crimes of this nature rise when there is a financial crisis, unemployment, gangs and drug activity. Police there have recorded 2,839 burglaries last year, a 10.2 percent increase over the same period the year before.
Of the 2,839 burglaries, 384 — or 13.5 […]
During my first year of studies at Union Theological Seminary (1956-7), I spent two evenings a week working with a small group of kids (about a dozen) at the Manhattanville Community Center in lower West Harlem — just down the street from the 26th Precinct police station.
It took a bit of […]
You do not represent me, a low income widow with a racially diverse family. You do not represent my daughters, two of whom have had children out of wedlock while still in their teens. We love our babies and would never hurt them. Please don’t pretend to speak for all women.
One of the neglected areas of my medical education was “ethnic” and “racial” aspects of medicine.
One example of this is lactose intolerance.Only IndoEuropeans (and one small tribe in Uganda) are able to digest milk without problems.In the modern world, this means a lot of folks diagnosed with “irritable bowel” syndrome were actually lactose intolerant; and […]
Caylee Anthony is the little girl that disappeared in mid June 2008 but wasn’t reported missing until 31 days later by her grandmother. Yes, her grandmother NOT by her own mother. Her mother claimed she had been doing her own private investigating trying to find her daughter during that time. Casey Anthony claimed she spent […]
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