*The revolutionary purpose of the Kingdom of God and its millennial plan is to reduce all nations and creeds to one political and religious standard… —*Parley P. Pratt (Great Great Grandfather of Governor Mitt Romney) Mountain... Read More

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems if only we can find the political will. — Kofi Annan With a Nobel Peace Prize and an impressive list of diplomatic accomplishments the seventh Secretary-General of the United... Read More

“’…things tend to get weird when the weather gets hot like this.’” “‘A wife or a kid might get hit instead of yelled at a barroom argument turns into a stabbing you cut somebody off on the freeway and instead of getting the... Read More

“…police agencies the federal government and Homeland Security cannot protect Americans.” Terror in America highlights a porous border as the undoing of all other security spending. Terrorists study American culture customs and... Read More

Aspirin-popping tartan-accented Alban Bane pushes his way through the crowd outside San Quentin with an open umbrella. He carries a badge he says he’s allowed to be a jerk. Bane’s come to witness the execution by lethal injection of... Read More

Energized Economics:From 1969 through 2004, fifty-seven economists were awarded the Nobel Prize. Nine of the recipients were members of the faculty, or associated with, the University of Chicago. In The Chicago School: How the University... Read More

Although Virginnie’s straw hat is supposed to protect her from the sun, it exposes her to danger when the wind blows it off of her head and into a dark, overgrown swamp. The hat ends up high in the branches of a sycamore tree, and from... Read More

The sole sister is often a lonely sister. But being “single does not necessarily mean lonely.” Some women choose to be single, even preferring to parent alone. In fact, culture critics predict that most women over the age of... Read More