We will experience commemorations throughout this week, as remember 9/11 and its victims of that awful day. I wanted to give my impression as a U.S. citizen and resident but a witness to 9/11 from a foreign land.

I left the country on September 8, 2011 for a trip to...

The arrest of the IMF head on assault charges of a maid in a New York hotel brings to light some very interesting issues. First of all, the maid was apparently black, and just yesterday a psychologist from the London School of Economics said that black women were...

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is...

When I think of horses, I think of my alma mater, Saint Timothy's school in the suburbs of Baltimore Maryland. One of the most memorable sights from my high school days was that of my fellow classmates preparing for horse shows, braiding their beautiful horses and donning their riding outfits...

"When thou wakest, it is thy dear:/ Wake when some vile thing is near." Act 2, Scene 2, lines 33-34 A Midnight Summer Night's Dream -- William Shakespeare

"When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were...

Ok, I'm sure we're not the first to have contentious elections and fighting between parties. It's an historical fact that there have been some great party battles in the past, the Lincoln-Douglas debates for example. And it's true too that each generation always thinks that what is occurring in their...

Unemployment is a boil on the neck of prosperity and economic recovery in America and we must do more than lance it -- we must cure it. There is constant debate as to the cause of the current unemployment/economic crisis in America. Numerous theories are espoused -- everything from blaming...

Let me start off by saying, I intend to be provocative here and intend to gather opinions on the legality of denying health insurance and health care treatment to a portion of the U.S. population.

The recent health care proposal reforms have provided the opportunity for many Americans to bear...

Dominating the news this lazy July week of summer was the arrest of the prominent Harvard Professor, Henry Louis Gates. Professor Gates teaches undergraduate and graduate courses as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and as Professor of English at Harvard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates

Although there have been varying accounts of the...

The nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States represents another milestone in the historic ascendancy of President Barack Obama. If confirmed, she will be the first person of Puerto Rican, Hispanic heritage to don the hallowed robes of the U.S. most august court.

This is...

I have written before about interesting Sunday Forums at the Washington National Cathedral and last week´s Forum was no exception. The Forums are held virtually each week at the National Cathedral and feature Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III in conversation with various persons of note about a variety of...

President Obama has asked citizens to continue grassroots efforts which were successful in the campaign to help pass his proposed economic stimulus package. The package which is estimated to be between 700 and 800 billion dollars is supposed to stimulate the economy, put people back to work, and preclude a...

Accountability and healing seem to be natural outcomes and processes that America must go through after these last eight years. These themes are all encompassing and a major part of it focuses on the war in Iraq. The issue of torture is forefront today, and the premier query, is whether...

One great hope I have in 2009 is that the Civil Rights laws, for which so many people fought and died for, will again be taken seriously and enforced, and that there will be accountability for those who violate those laws. This to me, this is one of the unspoken,...

One of the most hopeful messages many of us took away from the 2008 election of Barack Obama, is the message of hope and redemption. We are hopeful in restoration of the basic beliefs, principles and democratic ideals enumerated in our great Constitution and Bill of Rights. The election of...

Mr. Terrorist,

Don't be Doing That

Recently, al Qaeda's No. 2 man, Ayman al- Zawahi, felt the need to distinguish President Elect Barack Obama from Malcom X, concluding that the new President is not representative of the militant black community, and thus not in solidarity with their, [al Qaeda's]...

Amidst townhouses on streets lined with yellow and gold trees, a change of seasons clearly evident, I witnessed a row of Obama/Biden signs, here in Northern Virginia. Amongst the signs, was one leaning McCain/Palin sign. That seemed symbolic of the McCain campaign to me and the transitioning trees seemed to...

Paula B. Mays is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail.

This week my election work was... let´s say... biblically based. My other volunteer job, besides citizen reporting, is being a Lay Reader, or what is...

Paula B. Mays is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail.

Last week I was bemoaning the fact I was sent to canvass, that is knock on the doors of an appointed list of people and try to get...

In my mind, one of the worse things about the recent Muslim/Arab hate speeches either tacitly condoned by Senator John McCain, or outright spoken by his running mate and sidekick, Governor Sarah Palin, is that this line of attack presumes there are no Muslims persons living in the...