Christmas 2005
(PDF) |
The Christmas Story and Other Redeeming Myths |
December 28,
2005
(PDF) |
The Deceptions of War |
January 4,
2006
(PDF) |
Why Not Democracy in the Workplace |
January 15,
2006
(PDF) |
Gandhi, King, and Thoreau: Three Principles of Non-Violence |
January 18,
2006
(PDF) |
A Woman’s Right to Choose Hangs in the Balance |
January 25,
2006
(PDF) |
Happy 300th Birthday, Ben! Franklin and Religious Liberalism |
February 1,
2006
(PDF) |
The Many Sins of Moscow’s New St. Andrews College |
February 8,
2006
(PDF) |
A Runaway Train: Administrative Salaries Steam Ahead of Faculty |
February 15,
2006(PDF) |
Was Katrina the Wrath of God? |
February 22,
2006
(PDF) |
Happy 274th Birthday, George! |
March 1,
2006
(PDF) |
Karma, Character, and America’s Destiny |
March 8,
2006
(PDF) |
We Are All Liberals: Well, Almost All |
March 22, 2006
(PDF) |
Would Saddam Have Been Better? Three Disastrous Years in Iraq |
March 29,
2006
(PDF) |
Anti-Intellectualism in America’s Future |
April 4,
2006
(PDF) |
The Gospel of Weak Belief |
April 11,
2006
(PDF) |
Mad Max Meets Jesus Christ |
April 18, 2006
(PDF) |
Chilling Parallels Between Christian and Islamic Fundamentalism |
April 25, 2006
(PDF) |
Why Reagan Can’t Save the Republicans |
May 2, 2006
(PDF) |
The Real Meaning of Sodomy |
| May 9, 2006(PDF) |
A Visit to the Land of Chinggis Khan |
| May 16, 2006(PDF) |
The Moment of Truth for America’s Death Penalty |
| May 23, 2006(PDF) |
The Brutality Connection: Abu Ghraib and America’s Prisons |
| May 30, 2006(PDF) |
Is the Gap So Great Between Retro Red and Metro Blue? |
| June 6, 2006(PDF) |
“Happy Hour” is Not What Aristotle Had in Mind |
| June 13, 2006(PDF) |
Liberals: Take Back the Flag! |
| June 20, 2006(PDF) |
“Bring Them On!”
Al-Zarqawi Responds to Bush’s Call |
| June 27, 2006(PDF) |
Good King Now, But Bad King Later?
Bhutan Should Choose Democracy |
July 4, 2006
(PDF) |
Thank Adams and Jefferson for 230 Years Without Religious Conflict |
| July 11, 2006(PDF) |
Long Live the Braceros:
Essential Guest Workers Not Felons |
| July 18, 2006(PDF) |
Beheading, Hooding, and Water Boarding:
CIA Torture in Vietnam , Latin America, and Iraq (Part 1)
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| July 25, 2006(PDF) |
Beheading, Hooding, and Water Boarding:
CIA Torture in Vietnam , Latin America, and Iraq (Part 2)
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| August 1, 2006PDF |
Historical Revisionism at Moscow’s Trinity Festival |
| August 8, 2006(PDF) |
New St. Andrews College:
Among the Top 40 Bible Colleges |
| August 15, 2006(PDF) |
Iraq:First Step Forward; Three Steps Back |
| August 22, 2006(PDF) |
Vietnam, Iraq, and Lebanon: Superpower Overkill Backfires |
| September 5, 2006(PDF) |
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty |
| September 12, 2006(PDF) |
Un-Declaring the War on Terror |
| September 19, 2006(PDF) |
The Woman Who Drew the Boundaries of Iraq |
| September 26, 2006(PDF) |
You’re Doing One Heckuva Job on the Economy, Bushie |
| October 3, 2006(PDF) |
Mahatma Gandhi: Charismatic Saint of Nonviolence |
| October 10, 2006(PDF) |
Afghanistan As Narcostan As Well As Jidadistan |
| October 17, 2006(PDF) |
Congress Caves In To Bush On Detainee Bill |
| October 24, 2006(PDF) |
Should Former College Deans Retain Their High Salaries |
| October 31, 2006(PDF) |
What Part of Equality Don’t You Understand?
It’s Indivisible and Universal Anyway |
| November 7, 2006(PDF) |
Convergence Not Conversion:
Religious Unity in India |
| November 14, 2006(PDF) |
Some Reflections on Veterans Day, 2006 |
| November 21, 2006(PDF) |
Buddhist Nationalism and Religious Violence in Sri Lanka |
| November 28, 2006(PDF) |
Their Souls Live On In The Cemetery of Books |
| December 5, 2006(PDF) |
Virtue, Morality, and Expediency |
| December 12, 2006(PDF) |
The Man Who Brought The Spanish Inquisition to Chile: Augusto Pinochet, Donald Rumsfeld, and Torture |
| December 19, 2006(PDF) |
Whistleblowers Need More Protection at the University of Idaho |
| December 19, 2006(PDF) |
Palouse Pundit Celebrates First Year of Broadcasting |
January 2,
2007
(PDF) |
Danish Social Democracy and “The Third Way” |
January 9,
2007
(PDF) |
America’s Health Care is a National Disgrace |
January 15,
2007
(PDF) |
How Did We Lose Our Racial Color Blindness? |
January 23,
2007
(PDF) |
Happy 270th Birthday Tom Paine |
January 30,
2007
(PDF) |
Selling Latah Health Services to Gritman Medical Center is a Wise Idea |
February 6,
2007
(PDF) |
A Runaway Train: Administrative Salaries Steam Ahead of Faculty By 99
Percent |
February 13,
2007
(PDF) |
God is Not a Scientific Hypothesis |
February 20,
2007
(PDF) |
Two Presidents Named George and the Golden RuleThe First Follows
It; The Second Doesn’t |
February 27,
2007
(PDF) |
Deceptions of War Reconfirmed |
March 6,
2007
(PDF) |
Queen’s “Tribe” is Leaving Iraq |
March 13,
2007
(PDF) |
Ed the Viking, Greenland, and Global Warming |
March 20,
2007
(PDF) |
The Inquisition is Alive and Well:
Father Jon Sobrino Punished for Helping the Poor |
March 27,
2007
(PDF) |
Tolerance for Islam in the Early American Republic |
April 3,
2007
(PDF) |
Women, Bonobos, and Peace |
April 10,
2007
(PDF) |
Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles |
April 17,
2007
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available |
What Ever Happened to the Last Judgment |
April 24,
2007
(PDF) |
America’s Moral Obligation for Global Warming |
May 1,
2007
(PDF) |
New St. Andrews College Must Earn the Respect of Other Academic Institutions |
May 8,
2007
(PDF) |
The Imam of Ait Kassem Serves Lunch |
May 15,
2007
(PDF) |
A Chilling Connection Between Nanjing, China (1853) and Moscow, Idaho (2003) |
May 23,
2007
(PDF) |
Catholics May Have Good Reasons to Support Abortion Reform |
May 29,
2007
(PDF) |
The Passing of an Ugly Giant of the religious Right |
June 5,
2007
(PDF) |
Relative Violence in Christianity and Islam |
June 13,
2007
(PDF) |
God is Dead (Again!): Secular
Fundamentalists Fight Back |
June 20,
2007
(PDF) |
The Global Peace Index:Norway #1; USA #96 |
June 27,
2007
(PDF) |
Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, Takes His Country in a New Direction |
July 4,
2007
(PDF) |
Senator Brownback is Confused About Evolution |
July 11,
2007
(PDF) |
The Living Goddess of Bhaktapur Loses Her Job |
July 18,
2007
(PDF) |
America’s Health Care is a National Disgrace and an International
Embarrassment Pert 2 |
July 25,
2007
(PDF) |
The Overuse and Abuse of Part-Time Faculty |
July 31,
2007
(PDF) |
Moscow’s Trinity Festival Features Fraudulent Calvinists and Questionable Trinitarians |
August 8,
2007
(PDF) |
Academic Tenure Is Not Sacrosanct:
The Cases of Professors Churchill and Maki |
August 15,
2007
(PDF) |
Muslim Democrats and Republicans Have Some Ignorant Idaho Detractors |
August 22,
2007
(PDF) |
Soles Hundreds of Feet Thick:
Visualizing Economic Inequality in America |
August 29,
2007
(PDF) |
Faulty Historical Parallels:
Bush Draws, Once Again, The Wrong Lessons |
September 5,
2007
(PDF) |
Lost in a World of Red and Green:
Colorblind Males as a Neglected Minority |
September 12,
2007
(PDF) |
Here’s to Good Royalty:
A Defense of Constitutional Monarch |
September 19,
2007
(PDF) |
IKEA: The Progressive Big Box Store From Sweden |
September 26,
2007
(PDF) |
Building Bridges With Our Muslim Neighbors
By Acknowledging Their Cultural Heritage |
October 3,
2007
(PDF) |
Moscow’s Calvinist College Makes the New York Times |
October 10,
2007
(PDF) |
A Denmark Retrospective:
Fond Memories for Me and 41 Years of Socioeconomic Progress for the Danes
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October 17,
2007
(PDF) |
The Three Ironies of Ed Iverson’s Report From Eastern Johnbirchistan |
October 24,
2007
(PDF) |
The 454th Anniversary of the Burning of Michael Servetus |
October 31,
2007
(PDF) |
The Upcoming City Council Election |
November 7,
2007
(PDF) |
Benazir Bhutto Returns Home to Cheers and Bombs |
November 21,
2007
(PDF) |
The Failure of Abstinence-Only Sex Education |
November 28,
2007
(PDF) |
Face to Black Face With King Tut |
December 5,
2007
(PDF) |
India’s Day of Infamy:
The Destruction of the Babri Mosque on December 6, 1992 |
December 19,
2007
(PDF) |
Civility is a Two-Way Street:
Christ Church and Her Detractors |
December 26,
2007
(PDF) |
Pontius the Pilot and the Flight to Egypt |
| January 2, 2008
(PDF) |
Blaming the Faculty:
Far More Bad Than Good in the Yardley Report |
| January 16, 2008
(PDF) |
Bayard Rustin: Tha Gay Man Who Organized the 1963 March on Washington |
| January 23, 2008
(PDF) |
The Trials and Tribulations of Providing and Obtaining Legal Abortions |
| January 30, 2008
(PDF) |
Why Not Democracy in Higher Education Workplaces? |
| February 6, 2008
(PDF) |
Indonesia: Rich Hindu Past and Moderate Muslim Future |
| February 13, 2008
(PDF) |
Quick Settlement of Mexican Wal-Mart Worker Strike is Suspicious |
| February 20, 2008
(PDF) |
Liberal Religion and Abraham Lincoln |
| February 26, 2008
(PDF) |
The Meterley Report: Always Giving 3.37 Inches More Than Yardley |
| March 5, 2008
(PDF) |
“Don’t Tread On Me”: Americans Rise Up Against Alien Invaders |
| March 13, 2008
(PDF) |
Progress in Iraq is Either Temporary or Illusory |
| March 19, 2008
(PDF) |
Tibetans Struggle in Dealing With an Orwellian Government |
| March 26, 2008
(PDF) |
Olympia Brown: Leading Suffragette and America’s First Ordained Woman Minister |
| April 2, 2008
(PDF) |
On The Importance of Three Cups of Tea |
| April 9, 2008
(PDF) |
The Meandering Maverick: No Straight Talk From McCain on Religion |
| April 9, 2008
(PDF) |
One Haitian Woman Struggles to Save Her People and Her Land |
| April 23, 2008
(PDF) |
Rapa Nui: A Case Study in Ecological Disaster |
| April 30, 2008
(PDF) |
Graduate Teaching Assistants: Exploited Labor on America’s Campuses |
| May 7, 2008
(PDF) |
The Doctrine of Discovery and the Christian Conquest of the World |
| May 14, 2008
(PDF) |
Good Manners, Civility, and Diplomacy |
| May 21, 2008
(PDF) |
Dear President White: You Owe Us at Least Another five Years |
| May 28, 2008
(PDF) |
Sandpoint Nurses May Lead Idaho Workers in a New Direction |
| June 4, 2008
(PDF) |
Two Himalayan Kingdoms Give Up their Kings |
| June 11, 2008
(PDF) |
The U.S. Starts Killing Its Own Again |
| June 18, 2008
(PDF) |
Our Troops Deserve Better Support When They Come Home |
| June 25, 2008
(PDF) |
Detainees Are People Too: Supreme Court Upholds Magna Carta |
| July 2, 2008
(PDF) |
Let’s Not Forget the Ladies of the American Revolution |
| July 9, 2008
(PDF) |
Denmark Leads the World in Wind Power |
| July 16, 2008
(PDF) |
Warning to the GOP: Don’t Mess With Medicare |
| July 23, 2008
(PDF) |
The Lake Woebegone Blues: Where Can I Buy a Good Green Car |
| July 30, 2008
(PDF) |
The People of Moscow Raise $35,000 for Schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan |
| August 6, 2008
(PDF) |
Barack Obama is Right About the Surge |
| August 13, 2008
(PDF) |
Headscarves, Secularism, and Religious Freedom |
| August 20, 2008
(PDF) |
Please Register Here To Protest, But We Might arrest You If You Do |
| August 27, 2008
(PDF) |
Krishna and Christ: Hindu and Christian Saviors |
| September 3, 2008
(PDF) |
The Employee Free Choice Act: Restoring Democracy in the American Workplace |
| September 10, 2008
(PDF) |
Obama’s Health Plan Works in the Bay State: McCain’s Would Be a Disaster |
| September 17, 2008
(PDF) |
McCain’s Pit Bull is Waging Cultural Warfare |
| September 24, 2008
(PDF) |
Will Sarah Palin Go the Way of Spiro Agnew Troopergate May Speed her Departure |
| October 1, 2008
(PDF) |
Gandhi’s Deep Religious Pluralism |
| October 8, 2008
(PDF) |
Memo to McCain: The Economy Tanked Long Ago |
| October 15, 2008
(PDF) |
McCain: Straight, But Unwise, Talk On Foreign Policy |
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| October 22, 2008
(PDF) |
Palin Destroys McCain’s Credibility On Energy and the Environment |
| October 30, 2008
(PDF) |
Why I’m Voting for Barack Obama and Joe Biden |
| November 5, 2008
(PDF) |
Hate Crimes Against Gays Continue; Necessary Legislation is Stalled |
| November 12, 2008
(PDF) |
The Persecution of Christianity in India, Sri Lanka, and Iraq |
| November 19, 2008
(PDF) |
Muslim Challenge Spurs Inter-Faith Dialogue |
| December 3, 2008
(PDF) |
The Gateway of India Becomes a Gateway of Death |
| December 10, 2008
(PDF) |
The Day Confucius Went to the United Nations: Chinese Influence on the Declaration of Human Rights |
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| December 24, 2008
(PDF) |
The Christ Child, Illegitimacy, and Meaning of the Gospel |
| January 14, 2009
(PDF) |
The War in Gaza: “Bombing 1.5 Million People in a Cage”
Civilians Suffer the Most in the War on Terror |
| January 21, 2009
(PDF) |
The Naked Emperor “Decider” Retires to His Ranch |
| January 28, 2009
(PDF) |
Idaho’s University Program Reduction Procedures “Severely Deficient” |
| Obama’s Strengths: Superb Intellect, Openness, and Pragmatism
(PDF) |
| February 3, 2009
(PDF) |
High-Speed Rail Key to Infrastructure Renewal |
| February 11, 2009
(PDF) |
Brave Somali Woman Rejects Islam With a Vengeance |
| February 16, 2009
(PDF) |
Interrogations Simply Need To Be Humane, Not “Enhanced” |
| February 25, 2009
(PDF) |
Failed Drug Policy From Nixon to Bush |
| March 4, 2009
(PDF) |
500,000 Frozen Embryos Cry Out To Be Born |
| March 11, 2009
(PDF) |
The Iraq War Was Not Worth the Sacrifice: American and Iraqi Lives Lost; Iraqi Culture Destroyed |
| March 18, 2009
(PDF) |
Internal Pick Best for University of Idaho President |
| March 25, 2009
(PDF) |
The Bamiyan Buddhas: The Destruction of Afghan Cultural Treasures |
| April 2, 2009
(PDF) |
Animals are People, Too: Overcoming the Myth of Human Uniqueness |
| April 15, 2009
(PDF) |
Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson: “Atheist and Leveler from Virginia” |
| April 22, 2009
(PDF) |
State Faculty Union Responds to Financial Crisis: Furloughs may be the Best Option |
| April 29, 2009
(PDF) |
When Good Fishermen Become Bad Bankers: The Collapse of the Icelandic Economy |
| May 6, 2009
(PDF) |
The Power of Pride: Vice or Virtue |
| May 13, 2009
(PDF) |
Melvina Reynolds: The Poetess of Protest |
| May 20, 2009
(PDF) |
The Party of Nehru and Gandhi Wins Big in India |
| May 27, 2009
(PDF) |
More Union Cards and Fewer Credit Cards: Did High Interest Rates Destroy the American Economy |
| June 3, 2009
(PDF) |
U.S. Loses Lead in Higher Education: Now Ranked 10th For Degrees For 25-34 Year-Olds |
| June 10, 2009
(PDF) |
Moscow’s Neo-Puritans Rewrite Salem Witch trial History |
| June 17, 2009
(PDF) |
UI Wastes Money On “Chief Inspiration Officer” |
December
30, 2009 |
Ed Board Risks Legal Action and National Censure With Proposed Personnel Changes |
December
23, 2009 |
“Do You
Hear What I Hear?” Said the Little Lamb |
December
16, 2009 |
The Myth of
the Copenhagen Climate Conspiracy |
December
9, 2009 |
Copenhagen:
Climate Conference’s Well Deserved Host |
December
2, 2009 |
HIV-AIDS in
Southern Africa:
The World’s Highest Infection Rates |
November
25, 2009 |
The
Military, Religion, and Mental Health |
November
18, 2009 |
We Are All
Bushmen and Women |
November
11, 2009 |
The Constitution, The University, and Freedom of Speech: The Case of
Professor Habib Sadid |
November
4, 2009 |
A Great Dream Unfulfilled: The Martin Institute at 30 |
October
28, 2009 |
A Tribute to Forrest Church: Theologian, Historian, Humanitarian |
October
21, 2009 |
The Crisis in Idaho Higher Education |
October
14, 2009 |
Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Obama |
October
7, 2009 |
Not Yet the Mahatma: Gandhi of South Africa |
September
23, 2009 |
Desmond Tutu, Allan Boesak, and Nelson Mandela: Giants of South African Liberation |
September
16, 2009 |
The Preacher, The Congressman, and the Neo-Confederacy |
September
9, 2009 |
Southwest Africa: A Century of Brutal Occupation |
July
29, 2009 |
Has Obama Taken His Eyes Off the Prize? |
July
22, 2009 |
Could King Hussein Have Stopped Saddam Hussein? |
July
15, 2009 |
Should the Head of Nefertiti and the Elgin Marbles Go Back Home? |
July
8, 2009 |
World’s Largest Island Closer to Independence |
July
1, 2009 |
Do You Want Wall Street to Control Your Health Care? |
June
24, 2009 |
Parma Research Station Must Continue Its Essential Work |
June 17,
2009 |
UI Wastes Money On “Chief Inspiration Officer” |