by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 4, 2011 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Below are summations regarding the 235th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence for the United States of America. The first is from the UK Telegraph, and the second is from RealClearPolitics, a site I am not familiar with but come across now and then. They...
by Barry Fagin | Jun 27, 2011 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 10-19-06} The year is 1933. Organized crime rules Chicago. Congress is about to repeal Prohibition by sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the states. Suddenly, the nation’s top alcohol policy official makes an appearance. He urges America...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 24, 2011 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{A Facebook rant inspired by an image posted by a friend} I’ve had it. I’m talking about you TSA, and 99% of the “Thou Shall Not” legislation that undermines our everyday choices as citizens, families, consumers, and entrepreneurs. It’s...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 2, 2011 | Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
I have officially been branded an “Islamophile” by a few posters on the LinkedIn Tea Party group. My crime? Pointing out that condemning a whole religion because of the actions of SOME of its members is wrong. Pointing out that generalizations are...
by Barry Fagin | May 30, 2011 | Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 7-28-06, a follow-up to a previous article.} Yesterday I wrote about the uneasy relationship between spirituality and animal instinct. Religion is at its best when it calls us to something higher, to master our baser nature...
by Barry Fagin | May 23, 2011 | Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 7-27-06} The two strongest forces in the world are religious belief and human nature. They interact in strange, unpredictable ways. Events on the other side of the world and here in Colorado Springs should get us all thinking about what...
