• We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. -Benjamin Franklin, Freedom Fighter

  • We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. -Martin Luther King, Jr., Freedom Fighter

  • Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. -Rudolf Carnap, Philosopher

  • A clash of doctrines is not a disaster—it is an opportunity. -Alfred North Whitehead, Philosopher

  • If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

  • Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. -Rumi, Mystic

  • If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – Rene Descartes, Philosopher

  • A house divided against itself cannot stand. -Abraham Lincoln, President

  • Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein, Scientist

  • Be the change you want to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi, Freedom Fighter

- November 24, 2011 -

Thanksgiving, 2011

These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine The skies remain dark this Thanksgiving. The greatest economic recession since the great depression is entering its fourth year. Sixteen percent of workers are either unemployed or Read more »

- November 25, 2010 -

Thanksgiving, 2010

These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine The skies are dark this Thanksgiving. Winter has come to much of America. Two-plus years into the deepest economic recession since the Great Depression, we, the people Read more »

- September 19, 2010 -

Constitution Day, 2010

How are we, a free people, to govern ourselves? This was the question Washington, Madison, Franklin and their colleagues asked themselves that miraculous summer 223 years ago. Eleven years after bringing forth a new nation, conceived in Read more »

- September 17, 2009 -

Constitution Day, 2009

You lie. Joe Wilson Congressman, South Carolina The debate over health-care reform in America is being dominated by two extreme political factions. Ideologues on the far left threaten to torpedo any bill that fails to have a Read more »

- December 25, 2007 -

Holiday Season, 2007

Peace on Earth. Good Will Toward All. In less than two weeks, we, the people, will begin for real the task of selecting our next President. Beginning January 3rd in Iowa and ending ten months later on Read more »

- November 23, 2006 -

Thanksgiving, 2006

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the mind of other men and women; the spirit of Read more »

- November 24, 2005 -

Thanksgiving, 2005

Stan Stahl, Ph.D. A clash of doctrines is not a disaster — it is an opportunity. Alfred North Whitehead 20th Century English Philosopher On this Thanksgiving, I am once again thankful to the Pilgrims for bequeathing to Read more »

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