: What Next For Bahrain?
Bahraini liberals have responded to the growing power of religious parties by organizing themselves to campaign through civil society in order to defend basic personal freedoms from being legislated away....

: What Has France's New President Done For The Country
A look at some of the changes implemented by the latest French premier and some of his motives behind the changes....

: University Embroiled in Debate About Birth Control
It is always funny to me when I read about things that have ballooned into a major controversy. Recnelty, I read that the University of South Carolina is embroiled in a controversy over its promotion...

: Safe Sex Education in the USA
Sex education in American schools, and especially the teaching of safe sex and contraceptives in sex education classes, is a heavily debated matter in the USA. This debate is centered mainly on wheth...

: Safe Sex Lessons in School Continue to Cause Controversy
School systems have long been battling with the topic of safe sex and how to teach it to their students. Some school systems have taken the stance that the only true form of safe sex is to abstain fr...

: The Cure for Recession: Withdraw from Iraq
Cincinnati, OH – Each week as Americans struggle to find money to fill their gas tanks, buy milk, and pay their mortgage – the government is spending $2 billion tax dollars in Iraq. And as the p...

: Is Traditional Politics Dead?
The poor vote one way and the rich another. Those neither rich nor poor get caught square in the middle or "middle class" as it is often called. The Twilight Zone might be a more appropriate name....

: Did Obama's Arrogance Trump His Intelligence?
It's my friends in the South and Midwest that are crying "foul." These folks are white, Reagan Democrats or Arnold Republicans. They are centrist, patriotic and by many experts the so-called swing vote....

: Disillusionment And Hope
The complexity of the human heart allows us to hope for something and to expect that we will be disappointed in it at the same time, to maintain ideals, and believe that they will never be realized at the same time Holding these dual views defines the nature of disillusionment – the profound sense that one’s most cherished hopes will not materialize in one’s lifetime or in the space of time in which the heart feels things should or must happen...

: Poverty in Africa
Poverty in Africa Africa is a continent with plenty of natural resources is indisputable. Yet people in Africa are characterized and decrepit by endemic hunger, genocides, wars, corruption, massive ...