by Ron Patterson I received my copy of “Hubbert’s Peak” by Kenneth S. Deffeyes in the mail Saturday, and finished it in three days. It was great. So many of […]
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Perspective: The Earth Viewed from 4 Billion Miles
Timothy Wilken Feelings from the around the World Perspective The Earth Viewed from 4 Billion Miles Carl Sagan wrote the following in 1996: “We succeeded in taking that picture [from […]
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Arthur Noll Timothy brought up the question of good and evil, means and ends. People often go around endlessly on these things, what they are and why. I suspect that often […]
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Timothy Wiken A human once said that the end justifies the means. And if I intend good, then my use of evil means is forgiven. Another human said the means become […]
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Tamim Ansary is a noted author of books on native Americans, and Afghanistan. The following is a letter he posted on the internet yesterday. Dear Friends, Yesterday I heard a […]
Continue readingDisarming Islamic Terrorism With an Economic Policy That Stimulates Growth and Benefits The Environment
Wayne F. Perg, Ph.D. The arms of Islamic Terrorism are the people who believe that they have been grievously wronged, so wronged that they feel justified in blowing themselves up […]
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Arthur Noll Osama Bin Laden has been in the news a lot recently. Whether he is in back of the recent attack or not, it seems worthwhile to note some […]
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Deepak Chopra As fate would have it, I was leaving New York on a jet flight that took off 45 minutes before the unthinkable happened. By the time we landed […]
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By BBC business editor Jeff Randall Having talked for many weeks about nothing other than faltering share prices, febrile consumer confidence and the likelihood of recession, Wall Street financiers had […]
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Reason Wilken On the fateful morning of September 11, 2001 America awoke to a nightmare beyond description. The unspeakable, the unthinkable had happened in our own backyard. The horrifying images […]
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