Sent from Larco Lomayatdit, Juba, South Sudan, Thursday, January 6 to his readers (H/T Faith McDonnell Director, Religious Liberty Programs and Church Alliance for a New Sudan, The Institute on Religion and Democracy): Even Hollywood movie star George Clooney is
On Sunday, January 9th, 2011, the people of Southern Sudan – Christians and animists, or practitioners of native faiths – will have the chance to vote to form an independent nation. The election was stipulated in a 2005 Comprehensive Peace
“I could never home-school. I would probably kill my kid by Wednesday, if I had to spend the entire day with him, every day!” Typical fare for the teenager-parent relationship? Unfortunately, yes. But ironically, the individuals making these pronouncements are
Note: On January 9, 2011, Sudan’s Southern population of nearly 16 million – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native religions – will vote on whether to become an independent nation. In a prior interview with Big Peace, Simon
On January 9, 2011, Sudan’s Southern population of nearly 16 million – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native religions – will vote on whether to become an independent nation. Since the 1950’s, war has raged between the Islamist
Our 111th congress, in its lame duck session, has given America a Christmas present in the way of repeal of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” law. Signing the repeal into law, President Obama said he’s “never been prouder.” From my
The New York Times is all verklemmt over Justice Scalia’s involvement in a tea party seminar: When the Tea Party holds its first Conservative Constitutional Seminar next month, Justice Antonin Scalia is set to be the speaker. It was a
Abuk Ngor Anyuon and Akuc Kiir Deng If you think that enslaving blacks ended in the 19th century, you are dead wrong. Last week 603 black women and children were freed from the horrors of chattel slavery that to this
After displaying in its lobby what was heralded as “the most expensive Christmas Tree in history” the Emirates Palace Hotel has apparently decided that, even in the land of excess that is Abu Dhabi, this was just too much and
The 20th Century provided filmmakers with countless stories of heroism in the face of tyranny, hope in the midst of despair, and courage in the presence of brutality: Schindler’s List, Hotel Rwanda, The Killing Fields… The list can go on
President Ronald Reagan used to say that the scariest words in the English language are: “Hi, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Two hundred or so years earlier, our Founding Fathers had essentially the same thoughts when
Ever since this continent was electrificated, Americans have been allowed to plug anything they want into their own electrical outlet. The history of electricity is a biography of modernism. Originally intended just to light homes, electric power was soon used
Reason Magazine editor Matt Welch begins a critique of Beck’s “The Puppet Master” series from last week with a sentence that captures the general approach of many other critics of the series: “I didn’t watch Glenn Beck’s three-part series on
It’s always open to speculation how wars will be fought in the future. But there is one sure bet. The way that our armed forces are powered will change. Part of the problem is that America consumes a lot of
The military junta in Burma (Myanmar) had hoped to regain some international credibility by holding the first supposedly free election in 20 years. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of Burma independence war hero Aung San (VOA) Burma’s election
A very dramatic scene is underway in the obscure republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a province in southern Russia, part of the North Caucasus. On October 20, gun fighting broke out between rebel forces and police, in which people on both sides
Has the so-called global warming crisis been propped up in the media and on the internet as the result of a single phrase? Astute Breitbart readers will know the IPCC theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is crumbling apart at
On Tuesday, US voters are set to repudiate US President Barack Obama’s agenda for their country. Unfortunately, based on his behavior in the face of a similar repudiation last January, it is safe to assume that Obama will not abandon
Britain’s leadership has mismanaged and misinterpreted multiculturalism, leading to a fracturing of British society and mutual distrust between the Muslim community and the rest of the country, the U.K.’s minister of state for security and counterterrorism said Oct. 28. “Multiculturalism
Tea Party Patriots National “Get Out The Vote” Tour: “With 10 Days until Election Day, Jenny Beth Martin and her team stopped in Independence, OH on Saturday 10-23 for a meet and greet at a sports tavern. The OH group
A talk Before a Tea Party rally sponsored by the Cecil County (Md.) Patriots in Elkton, Md., 10/23/10 Twenty months ago, on February 19, 2009, business reporter Rick Santelli of CNBC took to the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Russians were shocked on Tuesday morning by the news of a successful large-scale terrorist attack on Chechnya’s very well protected Parliament building in Grozny. Chechnya (Discovery Corp) The attack began when vehicles containing rebel militants made their way into parliamentary
The Simones, as I call them. No, this is not a French rock duet. Simone Signoret and Simone Weil. If you’ve only read The Ordinary Miracle II, you know of my romantically obsessive love for Simone Signoret. You may not
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The new campaign entitled “Lean Forward” not only takes certain liberties with the language of the Declaration of Independence, it also implies a patriotism on a higher plateau
The Chinese have a corner on the market of the rare earth minerals we need build our weapons. Our ‘allies’ in the Pakistani military cannot keep our fuel supply lines safe. Whether depending on an enemy for weapons or unreliable
