America experienced a crisis this morning at about 9:00 A.M. EST when Twitter and Facebook went "down." Have we become so dependent of this means of communication that we experienced deep anxiety or did we just go with the flow?… Continue reading

Study: Your Brain Thinks Money Is A Drug by David Kestenbaum If you've ever thought of money as a drug, you may be more right than you know. New research shows that counting money — just handling the bills —… Continue reading

Horse tramples car on Israeli highway An Israeli horse took to the highway and trampled an oncoming car in an encounter captured on video by a group of tourists in northern Israel. Full story via www.msnbc.msn.com Reminds me of a… Continue reading

Man takes father's remains from cemetery VERSHIRE, Vt., Aug. 4 (UPI) — A man who said he missed his late father allegedly brought home the man's remains from a Vershire, Vt., cemetery, police said. Dominik A. Bailey Jr., 43, was… Continue reading

By most political and worldly standards, Catherine II was a successful monarch. She had her share of enemies and detractors, and there were those who questioned her legitimacy as the ruler of Russia. Her moral and ethical choices might have raised… Continue reading

August 5, 2009: The Real Paul The Apostle Paul was "a conflict-ridden polemicist" who became "the future of an ancient movement of unlettered, agrarian, Semitic-speaking, indigenous Palestinians," writes New Testament scholar Allen Dwight Callahan. I am not sure I could… Continue reading

KIM LAWTON, anchor: A tense national debate about racial profiling has continued since Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was arrested in his Cambridge home for disorderly conduct. Gates, who is African-American, was arrested by Sergeant James Crowley, a white… Continue reading

Jeff Howell, 28, an Iraq War veteran who served 2004-2006, seeks solace in prayer during a Point Man International Ministries meeting, a support group for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in Leetonia, Ohio. via www.usatoday.com More people are surviving… Continue reading

I am sure this is true in most quarters …  August 5, 2009 by Rick JervisUSA Today LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. — The Rev. Michael Owens says nothing compares with dunking someone toward salvation. Owens, the pastor at New Hope Baptist… Continue reading

Teddy Roosevelt is quoted in 1912 as saying, "My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff." It strikes the eyes a bit crude and un-presidential, but the blunt truth is a pretty fair… Continue reading