I’ve seen Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” several times. This article, however, is not about the movie, per se, but about some of the passion, pro and con, that the movie has ignited. And there has been plenty.

The AP is protesting a decision made by U.S. Military officials in Afghanistan claiming an oppression of a free press and saying there was “not a reasonable justification” for erasing an AP photographer’s pictures(1) taken of the aftermath of a suicide bombing in Barikaw, Afghanistan. The decision protested by the AP was made March 4th by officers on the scene of a bombing that killed 8 Afghans, wounding 34. But, is the AP correct that this was somehow an outrage against a free press?

Recently I helped a friend of mine revise his resume. This gentleman, now in his early 70s, has a Ph.D. and the kind of knowledge and skills it literally takes a lifetime to acquire. But there’s a catch. Most of the people with whom he has worked over his distinguished career are no longer active.

A free society cannot succeed when ideologues exert a degree of influence on government disproportionate to their numbers. Sharia law is a good example, although most Americans cannot fully understand the hardships it imposes. A fine example of the dangers involved when a minority imposes its beliefs on others via legislation can be found in my adopted home state of Mississippi.

When news first broke, that the nefarious “Slick Willie” had been undergoing “Lewinskies” right there in the people’s oval office, Michael, an African American associate of mine, and self professed liberal had this to say about Clinton - and I quote:  “That man is no longer my President.” After a week or so went by, Michael had recanted, defending the President’s right of on-the-job cigar-dipping and willie-wagging, which of course was Michael’s right to flip-flop with his morality.  After all, he was a Liberal. 

When astronauts landed on the moon they found nothing but a lot of dust, huge rocks, and barren horizons. But when they turned the camera on Planet Earth and we saw that exquisite, perfectly-shaped, blue ball suspended tranquilly in space, it did more than boggle our minds.

As you might suppose, I was anxious to hear the rest of Charles Lindbergh’s story about his fears for America’s future. So, at an appropriate time, I again time-traveled into the past. And there I found the famous flyer, sitting in an easy chair, sipping tea, waiting for me. To avoid any confusion, I bring you this second interview in his exact words.

What student today hasn’t heard about Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic? But how many people know what this soft-spoken adventurer had to say about America’s foreign policy of non-involvement in foreign wars?

The Kashmir dispute makes the Crusades look like a family argument. Being the oldest, unresolved, international conflict in the world, the squabble between India and Pakistan over who owns this snippet of land could turn that part of Asia into a living hell. Or rather, a dead hell, since both countries have nuclear weapons, and they hate each other with a passion hotter than Britney’s diary.

It would be difficult to imagine a more apt description of a dangerous situation than the one above. Given that, it would be even harder to imagine a more pernicious trap than Zionism falsehoods that lie in wait for unsuspecting people -Jews and Christians alike-- in today’s distorted political and managed media worlds.

China is a sickly, sleeping giant. But when she awakens the world will tremble. -Napoleon Bonaparte, 1803

I know, I know, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is kaput, what’s left of Russia is just a huge cumbersome land area, with lots of leftover missiles, and a pipsqueak named Putin now running the show. But don’t shove this information under the rug.  Russia still has plenty of schmozzle when it comes to military might.

Very good, but not excellent or superb.

We hear it from some religious pulpits, and we think it’s the ‘gospel’ truth. But the real truth is you never really know what a Catholic believes, unless you are one. Unfortunately the majority religion of Congress is Catholic, but you’d never know by the legislation delivered.

Western “diplomacy” has strengthened North Korea. - Thanks to a new diplomatic deal, the nuclear stand-off with North Korea will allegedly end bloodlessly. In exchange for $400 million worth of aid and diplomatic concessions from the West, North Korea has promised to start disabling its nuclear facilities. This new arrangement is being celebrated as a levelheaded, practical, and win-win solution to the problem of the North Korean nuclear threat.