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Inside Job

…equality and those that do right by other people but we call those people Communists. If we get into communism, the same rule applies. How much money can you direct your own way? Thus communism, even though pure in principal, becomes corrupted. Perhaps we cannot look to any economic model, government, or corporation for salvation. There is a wild card that we call religion whose teachings is supposed to make everything wonderful. But what happens…

Christianity and its non-Christian Origins

…ern sense. In fact, this modern notion of faith came largely out of the Protestant reformation. The Protestants started out with a notion that people should have a direct, personal familiarity with scriptures and a much more personal relationship with God: ideas which hadn’t really entered much into the Christianity of the preceding millenium. The Catholics, in response, tried to “purify” their own faith and make sure that everyone was on the same…

E-mail from Jackie Speier

… included a second round of PPP loans, EIDL grants for businesses in low-income communities, an expansion of PPP benefits, a new grant program for live venue operators, and renewal of the Payroll Support Program, which provides financial assistance to airline employees. This is a good start, but we’ll need to provide even more comprehensive aid – grants, not loans – to the hardest hit sectors, like the food and hospitality industry. President Bide…

Report from “Special Seminar on Diplomacy in East Asia: Japan, US and China relations in the 21 century”

…or the US. She put forward the stated policy goal of Chinese leaders: to become a “responsible great power”. She then gave a number of examples of China listening and interacting with its neighbors peacefully. My contention is that the word “responsible” remained undefined. She simply quoted Chinese leaders and they have not yet felt it opportune  to define it – because China is not yet a “great power”. My suspicion is that “responsible” in this c…

More Power to Women

…imiting the focus to how female images appear in media they all too easily come to lack depth in their coverage. From reading their posts I am quite confident that, if they chose to, they could delve deeper into the real world dynamics that lie underneath the mere descriptions of Muslim women in media and popular culture. In fact, I think that they could provide unique and valuable insight to the subject. But because of this focus on appearance, M…