Dear Mr. President,

I know that your plate is quite full right now and you are dealing with many issues: two wars, the economy, unemployment, health care, and climate change. I have to add one more to the list: human rights.

I have read and heard excerpts of the...

I incredulously watched Rachel Maddow's undressing of Richard Cohen on her /richard-cohen-rachel-maddow_n_385057.html">show last night and was amazed at how she kept her cool. I wish she had screamed at the guy ala Bill O'Reilly or Keith Olbermann but that is not Rachel's style. The way she handled the interview...

In the Christian Bible Jesus tells the parable of the "Prodigal Son" (Luke 15:11-32). In the story a father has two sons, the younger who demands his father's inheritance while he is still living. He goes off to a distant country and wastes his resources on riotous living and...

I just received Susan Boyle's new CD I Dreamed A Dream and I have to admit, I was enraptured at first listen. In fact, I was moved to tears. I don't know if it was the music or the thought that she had dedicated this album to her...

Last week I observed Pastor and author Joel Osteen on The View talking about Christianity. When questioned about gays by co-host Whoopi Goldberg, Osteen declared that his church welcomes them but that he felt the lifestyle was wrong and we should give to God our best. I'm not sure what...

After seeing Michael Jackson's This Is It for the second time in four days, I can say that it is a little easier to accept his death. It is still incredibly sad. But watching him on the screen with this backstage documentary of what was to be his farewell tour,...

A close family friend's son recently returned from Afghanistan where he had been working as a government contractor for the US war there. He is a Veteran Marine who joined in 2002 right after terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11/01. He unselfishly wanted to...

The Phillies have just made it to the World Series for the second season in a row and the Philadelphia area is once again erupting in joy. Last year we were starved for a championship, having waited for over twenty years for them to win it all again. This time...

Some have said that the two party system is what makes us strong. They say it helps create a balance of power with one side keeping tabs on the other. I say it creates a never ending cycle of revenge. And that is a bad thing for our society.

It...

I am inspired by the speech President Obama made to the Human Rights Campaign in Washington DC last night. In it, he expressed his support and commitment to the rights of GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered) people in this country and the world.

Watching the video of...

Many Republicans have expressed shock and outrage at Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) for his recent talk and display on the floor of the House of Representatives while discussing health care reform. The Congressman, using posters, mocked the Republican's plan as 1. "Don't Get Sick" and 2. "If you do...

What does Susan Boyle have to do to gain respect? The initial YouTube video of her audition on "Britain's got Talent" has received a record 75 million or so hits, and her debut album (I Dreamed A Dream) is /susan-boyle-s-debut-album-at-number-one-three- months-before-it-s-released-115875-21646196/">at number one with tens of thousands of...

There sure were a lot of them in Washington DC last weekend. They rivaled the size of any of President Obama's largest crowds during the election and otherwise. (www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213056/Up-million-march-US-Capitol-protest-Obamas-spending-tea-party-demonstration.html)

But who are these TEA (stands for Taxed Enough Already) Party people? Do they represent Middle America or are they...

Listening to Rush Limbaugh's radio show made my blood boil. He was complaining about President Obama's declaration that today (9/11/09) is a "National Day of Service and Remembrance" when he gave a speech at the Pentagon. The President was calling on all Americans to be strong, firm, and united to...

We were told: "We have to defeat them over there instead of here." "The enemy has no regard for human life." "If we lose, everyone will consider us weak." "We are fighting for freedom and democracy."

On the other side we heard: "We are losing the hearts and minds...

I was wrong. A few weeks ago I wrote a blog entitled, "Dr. Obama, Listen to Your Patient," where I expressed my opinion that maybe now is not the time for health care reform. I felt that after two stimulus packages and a cap and trade bill that...

The words pierced through me like an arrow going straight through my heart. "You're a Freak! You're dirty! You're not a real woman! You hate your parents because you gave them no grandchildren! You are turning my children gay!"

I knew it was the ranting nonsense of a psychotic person,...

The last two weeks have been a nightmare for me. No Internet! I was pet sitting for friends that had just moved to a new home before they went on vacation and they didn't have time to hook up their computer or TV or washer and dryer.

I was going...

Dear Mr. President,

The American taxpayer is angry. We've been footing the bill for the nation for years now and our money has been mismanaged. We pay your salary and your staff's and that of Congress, the Supreme Court, Social Security, Medicare, the Post Office, the Pentagon, and countless other...

We need to embrace what our President says. While it can be argued that both Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University and Police Sergeant James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department overacted in the case of Gates getting arrested in his own home on July 16th after...