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.

December 13, 2022, 3:11 pm 9 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.

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.

October 29, 2012, 11:47 pm 1 comments in the last 30 days.
1497 and So On: A History of White People in Canada OR... The Caucasian Healing Fund.

In the beginning, John Cabot stumbled across Canada and he wasn't even an Englishman but he called himself one, which tells you something. Unable to hitch a ride with Columbus, the Italian seaman headed west in an English sloop and found himself stuck in a shoal of cod a hundred miles wide.

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.

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?

January 7, 2019, 7:24 pm 1 comments in the last 30 days.
Salem Women's March 2019 is Coming Up.

Thousands of women from Salem, Eugene and surrounding areas will rally and march in Salem, along with thousands of women in cities across the country and the globe on Saturday, January 19, 2019 as part of the third annual Women's March. “The Women’s March is not just a March, it is a movement and it has shown its power the change political outcomes and the direction our society is going,” said Debbie Miller, President of the organizing Board for this year’s Women’s March in Salem.