Manute Bol, many of whose relatives were killed by Islamic extremists, always emphasized the problem was extremists, not Islam. And he put his money and life behind his actions.  Gale Norton, Republican hack for Senate, has attacked Obama for not going to war against Islam.  No better comparison can be made as to what constitutes…

Midsummer, the Summer Solstice is fast approaching those of us in the northern hemisphere. The solstices are probably the most anciently celebrated holidays world-wide.  They fall on the same day everywhere, except for the hemispheric reversal.  And outside the tropics for the most part the solstices seem to symbolize the same mythic meaning: the eternal circle…

Earlier this week I was down visiting Pagan friends in the Bay Area.  Our conversation  ranged over a lot of topics, as it always does.  This time we ended up discussing a discovery that had surprised a close friend when he discovered it.  It surprised me as well when he told me the story.  That…

Al Franken gave a thoughtful and disturbing speech to the American Constitution Society on the legal and moral bankruptcy of the Federalist Society and ‘conservative’ jurisprudence.  Anyone who believes that ‘conservatism’ as it currently exists has anything to do with the principles this country was founded on would be the richer by listening to Franken’s…

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