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Martin Luther King did not come to his conclusions about nonviolence entirely on his own.  He had the personal strength to follow this path, but he also stood in a long noble and very interesting tradition with deep roots in America.  King looked at Mahatmas Gandhi as the teacher who first opened his eyes as…

As we observe this day honoring the life of Martin Luther King, jr., two thought come to mind as particularly relevant, and I hope worth sharing.  The first has to do with violence and the second with the intertwining of what I consider some of the most inspiring periods in our own history.  My first…

While I have been no Obama fan for a long time, his speech at Tucson’s memorial service for those murdered by Jared Loughner was wonderful. But this was even more a community event more than  a national event.  One of the less mentioned but I think important features of this service was the opening prayer by…

Just finished a long and utterly pointless attempt to make a rational argument to a sometime contributor to this blog who was complaining that liberals were distorting stuff after the murders in Tucson.  There are links on my Facebook wall if anyone want to go there. The final straw was when he tried to tell…
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