| December 14th, 2002 The Economic Winners in a Conflict with Iraq Who will be the benefactors of any war on Iraq ?The winners are all about past relationships. And where President George W. Bush's administration is concerned, those past relationships are measured in barrels of crude ... |
| November 1st, 2002 Electric Cars and Public Health, Yesterday and Today Can a government honestly say it's an advocate for the public's health while siding with the auto industry against electric cars quotas?It's doubtful given the ill effects of smog and pollution from gas guzzling automobiles. ... |
| October 1st, 2002 Ten Spots They'll Never Find Our Secure and Undisclosed Vice President Any cop will tell you it's the guilty who run at the scene of a crime.Believe that and you'll find Vice President Dick Cheney's disappearances during recent terrorist alerts puzzling. During ... |
| May 28th, 2002 How much money should the Catholic Church pay, or not pay, to settle current sex abuse claims? How about $0?Now, before you get into your car and head over to my place to tar and feather me, please rest assured that I, like you, believe that the Catholic Church owes a very ... |
| April 6th, 2002 Justly Revisited It was until my freshman year in college that I read the book "Farewell to Manzanar" - the true account of a Japanese-American family's struggle as prisoners in a U.S. internment camp during WW II. ... |
| March 28th, 2002 My List to Keep the Prez Busy After Saddam One of my favorite buttons, which I attached to my backpack during my freshman year in college, was one that sported a photo of Frank Sinatra and read, "It's Frank's world; we just live in ... |
| March 28th, 2002 How Baseball Keeps Teaching Me About Forgiveness What does a sport of rich owners and multi-million dollar players teach us about forgiveness, that concept so near and dear to all Christians?With baseball - plenty.The three R's And the answer to why is as ... |
| March 28th, 2002 A Generation of More "Realistic" Computer Games Virtual AmericaConstruct your own "virtual neighborhood" where hundreds of clones of Sam Walton, Michael Eisner, and Rupert Murdoch compete inside a gated community. Play as one of the three ... |
| March 28th, 2002 Young People and the Catholic Peace Movement Today As images of war fill a greater share of the nation's TV news, many Catholics are tuning in to organizations like Pax Christi USA to uphold the doctrine of nonviolence. A peace movement ... |
| March 6th, 2002 And the Hard Questions Who can blame those who lost friends and loved ones on 9/11 for thinking God let them down? And who can blame them for thinking that a benevolent and loving deity, if it exists, is ... |
