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Visit to Skeletonia

Barry Lee Coyne takes us on a scary journey that invokes some of the scariest images of this annual holiday that is observed around the world.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It's Halloween kids, time for the spirits to come out and invade your neighborhood, seeking candy and a good time and a couple of extra thrills.

It's a time to practice safety but to also have a great time. Kids in the U.S. often 'trick or treat' by going from door to door, dressed in any number of scary and sometimes funny costumes.

Memorial and Veterans Day Hypocrisy

HONOR YOUR DISSIDENTS...

(CHICAGO MCS) - Annually America’s warrior tradition is commemorated in major media editorials and op-eds, honoring fallen men and women for reasons not explained. More on that below.

The Decoration Day Difference Maker

"Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic." -- General Logan - May 5, 1868

(CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.) - Memorial Day was once known as Decoration Day. Early on, different states remembered the day on different dates.

Mother`s Day Manifesto 2011-2012

We the people of America who pay taxes are culpable for most all of the world's manufacturing, use of, and exporting of weapons of all degrees of destruction.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - A year ago I published Mother's Day Manifesto 2010.

With great sorrow, I report that the only change has been more death and destruction:
Iraq Coalition Military Fatalities from 2003-2011 total: 4,770
Afghanistan Coalition Military Fatalities from 2001-2011 total: 2,445

He is Risen, Indeed!

Christianity itself would have died, along with its Founder, if it all ended at the cross

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In the early Church, when one Christian would greet another, often he would say: “He is risen.” And the other would respond, “He is risen, indeed!”

Marion County Fire District Hosts Open House and Egg Hunt this Saturday in Clear Lake

(Salem, Oregon) - Marion County Fire District #1 Clear Lake Station 6 is hosting an Open House and Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday.

Does Trite Make Right?

Let that be our appetizer to vary the word menu so that all of us can truly savor our rich, hearty language. Just food for thought!

(SALEM, Ore.) - Maybe it's high time to buzz off on over-reliance on buzz word jargon in everyday chitchat. It's just one more symptom of our addiction to verbal short-cuts.

Every generation does it, and each decade ushers in yet another cluster. For my parents' generation the expression to take note of beauty was "hubba-hubba".

Nowruz, Iranians` Message of Peace and Friendship for the World

Nowruz celebrates the beauties of life and reminds us that we should enjoy these beauties before we lose the chance.

(TEHRAN) - During the final days of the year, the lifestyle of the Iranian people becomes quite different than the other days and months of the year.

The most remarkable feature of this difference is the immense dynamism and bustle of the people.

Evaluating Valentines Expectations: Beware of Passion-Prone Predator

When we cue in on Cupid, we need to observe the many clues lurking in the background.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Despite our best intentions, that cute sprite called Cupid does sometimes manage to fire arrows astray. His unwitting victims quiver after they wake up from Love's magic potion. Alas, it has missed the mark.

In the ideal world, every solitary single would acquire the perfect "soulmate", but reality intervenes.

The Other Side of the Wall

Dealing with the grim realities of Israel's apartheid law.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - PULSE recently published a series of photographs of photojournalist William Parry’s Christmastime project in London: projecting images of Israel’s apartheid wall in Bethlehem onto edifices in the British capital.

Parry has now written a piece entitled “The writing on the other side of the wall” for New Left Project...