"Let his little flock be bold."
Posted in Politics & Law on May 6th, 2013
Part A of essay Two in the series: The Suffocation of the Christian Communities in the Middle East In recent months, our journalists and editors have had to think on their feet as they have sought ways to make western audiences aware of a massive fact about the Middle East that these same authorities have striven for [...]
Posted in Politics & Law on Apr 26th, 2013
… The unshakable position of Christian Left literature was that Central American leftist governments held much promise, providing the darkness of the U.S. government was kept at bay. American intervention was nothing less than “the bald and brutal aggression of a superpower against a weaker nation.” Nicaragua, for example, was a light and a sign [...]
Posted in Politics & Law on Apr 8th, 2013
Essay One in a Series: The Suffocation of Christian Communities in the Middle East So far, only one indubitable trend has emerged in the so-called “Arab Spring” and that is towards collapse of all the political structures that were functioning before it began in January, 2012. Standing out clearly against this noisy background are two unmistakable sub-themes [...]
Posted in Politics & Law on Mar 20th, 2013
For one and one half hours on the steps of a college library in May 1970, Senator Margaret Chase Smith stood before the angry and curious faces of mostly college students in the manner she knew and had exercised in her twenty plus years as a senator. Her character exemplified moral absolutism or misguided self-righteousness; [...]
Posted in Politics & Law on Mar 16th, 2013
The Presidency of Hugo Chavez had a shaky beginning, to say the least, and came close to crashing down several times along the way. His career as an army officer went off the rails in 1992 when he was imprisoned for two years following his attempt to remove by coup President Carlos Andrés Pérez. After [...]
Posted in Politics & Law on Feb 28th, 2013
The launching of a series of coordinated assaults by the North Vietnam Army and the Vietcong on many provincial capitals and major cities in South Vietnam began on January 30. The fierce attacks of the Tet Offensive were a psychological blow to the United States, even though militarily the offensive was a tactical disaster for [...]
Posted in Politics & Law on Feb 18th, 2013
Sometime on January 30, 2013, Israel invaded the sovereign airspace of Syria and destroyed a large target or targets. While Israeli officials are still slide-stepping confirmation of details and still only and hinting at responsibility, signals went out almost at once from highly-placed Israelis tending to confirm the official American account: that Israel had hit a convoy of trucks [...]
Posted in Politics & Law, Theology on Jan 30th, 2013
Essay Five of Zero-sum Historiography: The Palestinian Assault upon History. Barack Hussein Obama’s relation to Islam This is (at least for the time being) the last of a series of essays on the topic of Muhammad’s teaching about History. This essay is intended to take us to where the rubber hits the road – that is, [...]
Posted in Politics & Law on Jan 18th, 2013
Essay Four of Zero-sum Historiography: The Palestinian Assault upon History. History and Anti-History In my previous essay, “The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem,” I considered the anti-historical motivations that govern the ruminations of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, about what might be called the Pre-History of Jerusalem. In the last lines of that essay, I refer regretfully to [...]
Posted in Politics & Law on Dec 27th, 2012
Essay Three of Zero-Sum Historiography: The Palestinian Assault upon HIstory. The Muslims say to Britain, to France, and to all the infidel nations that Jerusalem is Arab. We shall not respect anyone else’s wishes regarding her. The only relevant party is the Islamic nation, which will not allow infidel nations to interfere. – Sheik Ikrama Sabri, Mufti of Jerusalem, July 11, [...]