Archive for October, 2010

The Land of the Free and the Home of the Care-less?

 What do tea baggers, big banks, and the followers of Westboro Baptist Church have in common? A stunted view of morality.  The Tea party waves the flag of individual freedom, personal liberty, free market, and espouses the inalienable rights of individuals.  Westboro Baptist Church feels it has the undeniable right to picket military funerals and […]

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Ubuntu, healing, and elections

(This blog was originally published on the  Huffington Post, Oct 5, 2010)  Years ago, I visited my daughter Rasa at a wildlife camp about 10 miles south of Nairobi, Kenya, where she was studying wildlife management. Rasa’s three months at the camp, closely connected as she was to nature, transformed this beautiful strong young woman, […]

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Council of Mothers

Tea Partiers and right wing conservatives have been proclaiming themselves as advocates of the US Constitution and want to go back to the original interpretation established by the framers. Their near hysterical and distorted manner of embracing the Constitution seems to have missed an important element, the heart and soul of the document itself. When […]

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