As the “Bush Recession” tightens its grip on the American economy's windpipe, and the new Obama administration works feverishly to break its stranglehold, one term keeps popping up on the lips of Republican politicians and Right Wing pundits—pork.

One of the advantages of studying history is that it helps put today’s headlines into context and provides the information necessary to evaluate the claims made by rival factions in the news.

One day in the happy Kingdom of More Moola, Joe the pizza maker decided to make some extra pizzas, counting on the lunch shift at the local widget factory to buy up all that he had made.

It is a movie classic -- someone gets hysterical, so the hero slaps them across the face and tells them to get a grip on themselves. In the movies, this tactic works. Unfortunately, real life is not like that. This is a lesson for Israel.

The “Holiday Season” had come to San Francisco, cool gray city of love, bringing with it thundering rains and icy blasts from off the Pacific.

The Bible is a very complex and challenging book and not even those who have devoted a lifetime to its study can say for certain exactly what it all means

As the last days of the political campaign wind down and the election draws near perhaps this is a fit time to reflect on how this process came about and the historical roots that have made our nation what it is today.

Chicken Little was in the woods one day when an acorn fell on her head. It scared her so much she trembled all over. She shook so hard, half her feathers fell out. "Help! Help! The sky is falling! I have to go tell the king!"

In the last years of his life, Renoir had arthritis so bad that a brush had to be strapped to his hand so that he could paint. When asked why he continued to work in such conditions he replied, "The pain passes, but the beauty remains."

The small, but ethnically diverse, town of Deerfield, Illinois, has recently been propelled into the the spotlight by news that seniors of the local high school are being required to read an award-winning play by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

Two recent cases have once again focused the spotlight on two very different but closely related controversies: the one having to do with the place of religion in public buildings and the other with the role of art in those very same buildings.

After yet another humiliating defeat, the once mighty Israeli forces have retreated from Gaza under a whithering bombardment of international condemnation, their mission ending once again in failure.

George W. Bush has become synonymous with intelligence failures. He was wrong about WMD and Al Queata in Iraq and a host of other vital topics but nothing sums up his failure of intelligence quite so well as his taste in art.

Although "group punishment" is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, the Israelis have cut off supplies of chlorine to Gaza which are desperately needed to help purify the water supply of the 1.5 million residents.

Still smarting from their ignominious retreat on the Lucas Cranach poster, the guardians of public morals at the London Transit Authority have banned yet another poster for being "offensive." This time it's an ad for a new play called "Fat Jesus."

Officials at the London Transport Authority have beat an ignominious retreat in the face of world wide ridicule and agreed to put up posters depicting a 16th century nude painting intended to advertise an art show at the Royal Academy

So far of the 775 prisoners held without rights in Guantanamo the US Government has admitted that the 420 of them were innocent people wrongfully detained. How do we know that they were innocent? Because they were released without charge!

The New York Times has just released a story suggesting a romantic link between Republican Presidential hopeful John McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman back during the Senator's first run for the White House in 2000.

The recall last Sunday of 143 million pounds of tainted beef has once again turned a spotlight on the topic of why we have Federal regulations on food safety and what happens when anti-government ideologues have charge of the government.

The largest statue of Jesus in the world, which stands atop the 2,296 foot tall Corocovado mountain overlooking Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, was struck by lightening last Sunday. .