Today marks the 50th anniversary of His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s exile from Tibet. Tibetans and their supporters marked the anniversary of their failed uprising against Chinese rule with rallies around the globe as The Dalai Lama delivered a harsh and blistering attack on the Chinese government during a speech today in Dharamsala, India, (the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile), in reaction to “a new clampdown by China on the Tibetan regions.” During his speech, His Holiness said that the “Chinese government’s...

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(A moment away from my book to write a guest post.) It turned out to be a lie. A very strange lie. A “journalism 101″ moment, where basic facts were ignored to make an ideological point — which utterly belies the concept of “responsible journalism.” That was the essence of last Wednesday’s posting on my blog, which I’ll come back to. But this newer offense takes the cake for … well, uh… he starts out : Sphere: Related...

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Via Michael Spencer in The Christian Science Monitor: We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West. And why exactly is the collapse of Evangelic Christianity looming? The number one reason, as Spencer sees it is: Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war and with political...

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A few months ago, I started a personal blog that is mostly focused on my life here in Eastport, Maine and other “musings and other ramblings” on life. Well, I’ve now started yet another blog, a women’s blog: BohemianWomen.org. The focus at BohemianWomen.org is to bring together women in the arts to share their work and their views on the arts, culture, lifestyle and the business of promoting arts and crafts. Check it out and feel free to join...

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On Monday, President Barack Obama called into question the legitimacy of former President Bush’s signing statements and ordered all “executive branch departments and agencies” to seek the “advice of the Attorney General before relying on signing statements issued prior to the date of this memorandum as the basis for disregarding, or otherwise refusing to comply with, any provision of a statute.” Although the practice of using signing statements has been around since the 19th century, former President Bush, “broke...

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Today, President Barack Obama lifted the strict limits on Stem Cell research imposed during the Bush administration. In a ceremony in the White House’s East Room, “before an audience that included lawmakers, scientists and patients, several of them in wheelchairs, Mr. Obama announced that he was issuing an executive order intended to advance the research.” Obama said he “hoped Congress would follow with bipartisan legislation that would ease the existing restrictions even more,” and he pledged that “his administration will...

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I really don’t like giving the pompous, full of nothing but hot air bag, Rush Limbaugh any space on this blog, however I did find it amusing that Newt Gingrich stepped up today to be the latest Republican to take him on. And, as to be expected… Rush shot back at Newt. Clearly the Republican party is in a state… of denial or something, and totally and completely lacking any sort of leadership. Let’s hope they keep up this...

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I’ve been busy since I got back from my trip down to Massachusetts and haven’t hhad a chance to post all day. I was on way upstairs to the computer when I received a phone call inviting me to join a Town Hall Conference Call with my local Rep., Congressman Mike Michaud. As a new resident of Eastport, Maine I found the call to be very informative on local issues here in Maine. As a blogger and liberal activist...

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