Losing my religion for equality
I have been a practising Christian all my life and a deacon and Bible teacher for many years. My faith is a source of strength and comfort to me, as religious beliefs are to hundreds of millions of...
Category: North America
To fire Pat Buchanan is to miss the point
Barack Obama nominated for his first opening on the Supreme Court Puerto Rican Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor. The appellate court judge has more judicial experience than anyone currently on the bench,...
Tina Brown and Hillary Clinton’s burqa
Tina Brown’s ploys for self-promotion are numerous, but her latest piece, along with a follow-up interview on CNN, takes the cake. Brown, former editor for noted U.S. magazines such as Vanity Fair,...
Racism at Philadelphia pool is just the tip of the iceberg
Philadelphia. The city of brotherly love. A northeastern city, 43.8% African-American, that voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. And my home for the past couple of years. It's the last place you...
Sarah Palin Just Resigned: Why?
Sarah Palin quit the governor's office so that she could fight for Alaska. What? OK, no one really believes that. But no one really expected Palin to announce, on July 3rd, that she was stepping down...
Will we put Guantanamo detainees on trial for terrorist speech?
Scenario one: someone posts on the Internet step-by-step instructions for building a crude weapon of mass destruction, or act of bioterrorism. Scenario two: someone stands in the street with a sign...
A note to the world: we DO play football in the States!
To the average American sports fan, football is played with two eleven member teams of massive men struggling to score with an oblong ball on a striped 100 by 53 yard field with U-shaped goalposts at...
Don’t cry for Mark Sanford, take a stand for privacy instead
$700 million dollars was the amount of money that South Carolina governor Mark Sanford wanted to refuse from the stimulus package. $700 million for failing South Carolina schools, for underpaid...
Loving a Man in Uniform: Lily Burana as army wife
In 2004, Lily Burana wrote a book called Strip City, a memoir told as a cross-country road trip from strip club to strip club, reconciling her past as a dancer in those clubs with her career as a...
Tamils in Toronto: the graceful protest
Over the past several months, members of Toronto's large Tamil community have organized a number of protests meant to draw attention to the dire situation in Sri Lanka, where, up until recently, the...