You Mean It’s Not Really that Much of a Meritocracy?
Courtesy: The Daily Beast You Mean It’s Not Really that Much of a Meritocracy? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/07/you-mean-it-s-not-really-that-much-of-a-meritocracy.html
The pain of following Iran in U.S. media (“professionally criminal”)
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Story Summary One of the most annoying aspects of spending time in the United States, as I have just done during a month’s working visit there, is to follow news coverage of Iran in the mainstream American media. Iran only exists for most […]
Five Questions for a Believer
Source: The Daily Beast: First, evangelicals have had a genuine biblical conversion to how God wants us to respond to “the stranger” and especially when Jesus says how we treat them is how we treat him. Second, evangelicals have had a relational conversion as immigrant families, including the undocumented, have […]
Obama’s Dangerous Nuclear Dance
Source: Daily Beast: By Leslie H. Gelb The White House press corps should ask President Obama this question: You’ve told Iran’s leaders that if they come close to marrying a nuclear warhead with a missile that can hit the United States or our allies, they should expect a U.S. military […]
Christianity As State Religion Supported By One-Third Of Americans, Poll Finds
Huff Post: Although the North Carolina House of Representatives killed a bill Thursday that would have paved the way for establishing an official state religion, a new national HuffPost/YouGov poll finds widespread support for doing so. The new survey finds that 34 percent of adults would favor establishing Christianity as the official state religion […]
US ‘fueling and orchestrating’ war crime against people of Syria
Russian TV: Moscow has expressed its concern over the UN’s “inconsistent” and “unconstructive” approach to dealing with the charges of alleged chemical weapons use in Syria. Sara Flounders explains what could go wrong if the issue is not thoroughly addressed. Russia has accused the UN of yielding to the pressure […]
Pakistan may use LeT for proxy war in Kashmir
Source. Daily News via Wasim Srroya: Washington, April 6 — Raising the spectre of a renewed conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, a US study has warned that Islamabad may well turn to trusted Pakistani militant groups, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), to do its bidding. For the past two […]
The loneliest human being’
Source: BBC There’s a thing about being alone and there’s a thing about being lonely, and they’re two different things. I was alone but I was not lonely. My background was as a fighter pilot in the airforce, then as a test pilot – and that was mostly in fighter […]
The ethereal future of battle
Source: BBC.COM The future of warfare is no longer about bullets and bombs, or dominating land, sea and air. Instead, tomorrow’s victors will dominate the ether. The voice of the foreign military commander is sinister and gloating. “On the anniversary of our nation’s most glorious sea victory, let us remember […]
This Map Of US Female Mortality Will Break Your Heart
Business Insider: Grace Wyler. In a speech at the Women In The World summit Friday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned a startling fact: Women in the U.S. are living shorter lives than women in almost every other industrialized country. And worse yet, female mortality rates are actually rising in many parts of […]
The psychology of time
Source: The Economist: IN “TIME’S Arrow”, a novel by Martin Amis, the protagonist experiences time backwards. Eating involves regurgitating food into his mouth, sculpting the mush with his tongue, packaging it up and selling it to a grocery store. The passage on defecation is best left undescribed. Such a comic […]
Evacuation warnings, missile fears stoke North Korea crisis
Source: TOI SEOUL: Foreign diplomats in Pyongyang were considering a North Korean evacuation advisory Saturday as concerns grew that the isolated state was preparing a missile launch at a time of soaring nuclear tensions. Bulgaria said the heads of EU missions would meet to hammer out a common position after […]
When George Bush invaded Iraq, life imitated art – Born-again Christians often don’t realise their ‘God-given’ right to invade Iraq destroyed one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East
by Robert Fisk, The Independent In the late 1340s, Bernardo Daddi of Florence painted The Virgin and Child with a Donor. The anonymous donor stands, tiny and in prayer, at […]
Four Reasons Why Bible is not Literal Word of God
Huff Post: Rabbi Alan Lurie: At one of the Republican presidential primary debates, viewers were invited to present questions to the candidates via YouTube. One questioner was an intense young […]
Nuclear weapons: Who has what?
Source:CNN More than two dozen countries have nuclear power, but only a few have nuclear weapons or are suspected of pursuing nuclear weapons. Click on a country below to learn more about their nuclear programs. More:
Glen Ellyn’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to host “Muhammad Messenger of Peace” event
By MARY BETH VERSACI – www.mysuburbanlife.com GLEN ELLYN — The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Glen Ellyn is hosting an event Saturday as part of the national “Muhammad Messenger of Peace” campaign. […]
One in four Americans think Obama may be the antichrist, survey says
Guardian: About one in four Americans suspect that President Barack Obama might be the antichrist, more than a third believe that global warming is a hoax and more than half suspect that a secretive global elite is trying to set up a New World Order, according to a poll released on Tuesday. […]
N. Korea Approves Nuclear Strike on U.S.
Source: The Daily Beast: In a statement published Thursday by North Korea’s official news agency, North Korean military officials announced that they had final approval for missile strikes on the U.S., possibly involving nuclear weapons. More:
Nukes approved: War could break out ‘today or tomorrow’, threatens N Korea
SEOUL: North Korea dramatically escalated its warlike rhetoric on Thursday, warning that it had authorised plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States. “The moment of explosion is approaching fast,” the North Korean military said, warning that war could break out “today or tomorrow”. Pyongyang’s latest pronouncement came as […]
Self-labeled ‘Messiah’ found guilty of drug possession
By GARY L. SMITH of the Journal Star | http://www.pjstar.com LACON — Self-proclaimed “Messiah” Warith Muhammad was found guilty Tuesday afternoon of drug charges in a Marshall County case in which […]