Editorial by Maramis Choufani
Editorials · On a Personal Note
One really can’t get the full flavor of being in The Holy Land in less than two weeks, but we do what we can when we have the opportunity to go. And I wouldn’t have missed this trip for anything, regardless of its brevity. I’m not much of a world[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Well, although I am still “home” as I write this, I am actually in The Holy Land this week. I decided not to take my computer, or even my cell phone, and be totally incommunicado. Kind of like the old days. How did they ever survive back in those old[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Wow! As I write this, I’ve only another day or two left before I leave for my grand adventure in what is called The Holy Land! In my absence, my friend and fellow editor, Parker Philpot, will be filling in for me for a cycle of two issues. I thank[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
It isn’t easy to make a case for better treatment of prisoners. Most people don’t want to hear about it (“Oh, give me a break! They deserve whatever they get — and worse. They didn’t give their victims any thought, so why should we give them any thought?” or something[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
I received an email recently that was entitled, “An open letter to the armed forces.” It certainly offered a new perspective for how to view men in the military! Because of my particulars — first, that of being a woman, then that of being both IN the military and a[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Many of us can be armchair politicians of a sort as we watch the news and see how there’s yet another flare-up in another part of the world, and we — the United States of America — are in some way involved in the new battle for freedom and/or sovereignty.[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Whether it comes out of the mouth of a beauty pageant contestant, a peacenik, or even a politician, “World Peace,” the concept, is not going away. Ah… but world peace, the reality! That’s another story. World Peace, the reality, takes in the whole “workplace,” the whole world. It is not[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Oh, how we complicate our own lives! On the one hand we have some teenagers in a car enjoying their rap music with their radio turned up very loud; on the other hand, we have a man who was at that same place in time, agitated and annoyed by that[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
There are some things about which we would rather not know. At least, most of us would prefer to not have certain images in our minds, even if we know that there is much violence and gore, or difficult-to-accept events that go on in Nature’s “reality show.” During my “Happy[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Although everyone might not have immediately known his name, we all knew his face. And yes, he was a darned good actor. And like many before him, he died of a — at this time still presumed — heroin overdose… or even an “ordinary” dose of a bad batch of[...]
Harry Reid wants suburban Chinatown on Bundy’s landApril 18, 2014Monday night’s “blood moon” leaves stargazers gobsmacked, flabbergastedApril 18, 2014Monday night’s “blood moon” leaves stargazers gobsmacked, flabbergastedApril 18, 2014Our illustrious Senator Majority Leader and Godfather of many of the local politiciansApril 18, 2014
