Here Come Those Demagogue Tears Again

(Mon Apr 4th, 2011, by Daniel James Wood)

Democrats' Road to Ruin As this Friday looms as the deadline for the 2011 budget stopgap, and as both parties in Congress seek to avoid a government shutdown, the gauntlets are being thrown down by both sides of the debate.Republican Rep. P...

Why Must Women Be More Important in Islam?

(Mon Apr 4th, 2011, by Skip Conover)

Women must take a larger role in Muslim societies. For many patriarchal reasons of culture, location on the planet, and stages of development, women have been disenfranchised in many parts of the Muslim World for millennia. But for the sake ...

Mohali round of cricket diplomacy

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by K.R.SURENDRAN)

It seems with the Mohali round of diplomacy all problems between India and Pakistan have been settled. That is the magic of cricket. Actually only the spade-work for further rounds of talks has been laid out in a cordial atmosphere. The bonh...

Prison Chaplains - The Last Line Of Defense Against Secrecy And Abuse

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by Stan Moody)

Copyright (c) 2011 Stan MoodyThe headlines screamed, "Vicious, Feared Attack Leaves PA Inmate Comatose." The article began, "If his diary and witness accounts are to be believed, Nicholas Pinto endured months of physical, sexual and mental a...

Prison Reform: Kicking The "Can" On Down The Road

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by Stan Moody)

Copyright (c) 2011 Stan MoodyWhen I began this journey over a year ago, advocating for reform of our prisons, I never dreamed that so arcane and bizarre a subject could become a source of amusement. Despite being a former legislator, I had f...

India breaks history after 20 years, won world cup ICC 2011

(Sat Apr 2nd, 2011, by Agence India Press)

India breaks history after 20 years, won world cup ICC 2011 Dheeraj Paul Agence India Press April 2, 2011 Mumbai: India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in a pulsating final to deliver World Cup glory to their cricket-mad population for the fi...

Denial Is A River In Gotham City, Maine

(Fri Apr 1st, 2011, by Stan Moody)

Copyright (c) 2011 Stan MoodySyndicated Columnist, Leonard Pitts, recently published a piece, "Telling the truth that no one wants to believe." It strikes at the heart of what ails America as we lurch from one political extreme to another.Go...

Living out loud--April 2011

(Fri Apr 1st, 2011, by June Stepansky)

  LIVING OUT LOUD--April 2011 This is a blog about a life (mine) that is really largely uneventful but for me quite satisfying, or as Shakespeare once so aptly wrote, "a poor thing but mine own". I plan to give the bare bones outline of the...

What List Are You On?

(Fri Apr 1st, 2011, by Stan Moody)

Copyright (c) 2011 Stan MoodyIn my work on prison reform in Maine, I have noticed that there are pockets of activists, some organized and some not so organized, each with a certain niche but with no collaborative agenda. Several weeks ago, I...

Lives and property destroyed in pre-elections violence

(Fri Apr 1st, 2011, by MR PAT ASAKOME)

The sight is gory and horrible, to say the least. Where is Nigeria drifting to, in this twenty-first century when everyone now thinks computer? Nigeria, and indeed Africa, is still stuck in elections mayhem, worse than the ones inherited fro...