How to Vote

The following is not copyrighted and may be reproduced in any form and forwarded to anyone. How should I vote? I got my absentee ballot in the mail the other day. I recommend doing this to everyone because you can…

Harvard faculty recomends required "Reason and Faith" courses

The full report is available in PDF format at: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~secfas/Gen_Ed_Prelim_Report.htm Here is an excerpt: 4. Reason and Faith Religion is a fact of twenty-first-century life—around the world and right at home. Ninety-four percent of Harvard’s incom…

Harvard to reinstate religion in required courses

“Harvard committee recommends returning religion to the curriculum. The committee said the university founded 370 years ago to train Puritans ministers should require all undergraduates to study religion along side ethics and U.S. History” (FOX…

Pope's lecture causes uproar in the Muslim world

Christianity is the only reasonable religion and only “reason” (LOGOS) can show us that advancing the truth by the force of violence negates the truth that we are trying to demonstrate. That is what I got out of the Bishop…

Hundreds of WMDs discovered in Iraq, report says, more to be found ...

The U.S. has located some 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003 with more likely to be found, according to two Republican members of Congress trumpeting a newly declassified portion of a government report. “We have found weapons of mass…

Understanding Poverty in Orlando Area High Schools (Part 2)

Teachers in Osceola County, Florida schools were encouraged to complete an “Understanding Poverty” book and seminar. The central theme is that teachers need to understand where their students come from, accommodate them where they are at, and design the curriculum…

Understanding Poverty in Orlando, Florida Area High Schools (Part 1)

I was at my 25th high school reunion in Framingham, Massachusetts last week and ran into a guy I knew named John. He used to be in METCO which was a busing program that brought kids from Roxbury and Dorchester…

On Racism

I teach in a public school in Kissimmee, Florida, which is officially the most racially diverse student population in central Florida. This is a group of students many of whose parents have come to work in the tourist industry from…

Legal temporary-worker status for illegal immigrants?

President Bush has proposed to allow foreigners who have jobs but are staying illegally in the United States to apply for legal temporary-worker status. I may surprise some people on this one. I agree with Presdient Bush, but I have…

Did Saddam Hussein have weapons of mass destruction?

You’ve seen the bumper stickers, “Bush lied.” You have heard the idealistic talk about an impeachment and viewed the Democrats’ political commercials, “Bush: Misleader.” According to polls, most Americans believe that Bush either misled or possibly was himself misled by…