Hope column touches a nerve - Buffalo News
Pub. Date - Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:00:00 GMT
Q: You stated in a recent column that “on the way down, (faith) is a saving rock.” You talk a lot about religious faith, including a belief in heaven, as a source of “hope.” Another word for hope in the absence of evidence is wishful thinking ... The Koran, punk rock and lots of questions - Los Angeles Times
Pub. Date - Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:51:00 GMT
Hiba Siddiqui, wearing a white head scarf, and other members of the Muslim Students Assn. meet for Friday prayers at Kempner High School in Sugar Land, Texas. This much Hiba Siddiqui knows: She is a Muslim teenager living in America. But what does ... Obama has more threats than other presidents-elect - Added 3 minutes ... - Town Hall
Pub. Date - Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:52:00 GMT
Threats against a new president historically spike right after an election, but from Maine to Idaho law enforcement officials are seeing more against Barack Obama than ever before. The Secret Service would not comment... Obama to use Web videos for ... Obama to use Web videos for presidential address - Added 3 days ago - Town Hall
Pub. Date - Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:53:00 GMT
This isn't your grandfather's fireside chat. President-elect Barack Obama plans to tape a weekly address not just for radio listeners, as presidents have for years, but for YouTube Internet viewers, too. Well, what... Obama names Valerie Jarrett as ... You still a black queen, Mama - The Times
Pub. Date - Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:05:00 GMT
FATE’S a bitch, ain’t it? I mean here we are celebrating what the magic realist, essayist, poet and literary seer of sorts, Ben Okri, regards as “probably the first great historic moment with a positive charge in the 21st century”. The man ... The Van Man - Times-Herald
Pub. Date - Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:01:00 GMT
Kip Doyle/Olean Times Herald The owner of the Green Bay Packers-themed van that has been seen traveling around the region, Wayne Schifelbine (right), poses with the van’s driver, Terry Grimes, and the van. Although Mr. Schifelbine is a Packers ... In Praise of Vulgarity - Reason.com
Pub. Date - Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:27:00 GMT
Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in ... The God Squad /By Rabbi Marc Gellman - Buffalo News
Pub. Date - Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:00:00 GMT
Q: Last Thanksgiving, my nearly 12-year-old son asked me about the fourth dimension. When he said, “Do we know anything past three dimensions?” I described being thankful as the spiritual fourth dimension — perceiving others and all things as a ... Adam Parfrey sheds light on the dark sides of life. - Reason.com
Pub. Date - Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:27:00 GMT
Not many book publishers have been lauded as "equal parts P.T. Barnum, Rod Serling and Hegel," but that's how Salon glowingly characterized Adam Parfrey, the force behind the eccentric Los Angeles-based publishing concern known as Feral House ... Gay Rappers Respond In Droves To Trick Trick Comments - allhiphop.com
Pub. Date - Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:53:00 GMT
Members of the Gay and Lesbian Hip-Hop community have responded in droves to rapper Trick Trick’s recent unprovoked verbal attack. Like many others, they were surprised by the inflammatory comments made by the Detroit artist regarding their ... | 
