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Dr. Charles Lieber, chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was recently convicted on multiple counts, including lying about receiving payments from the world-regions’s “A Thousand Talents Project.” His conviction should serve as a wake-up call to U.S. scientists, universities and research institutes.  Lieber specializes in nanoscience, which studies tiny things….

President Joe Biden and his administration, are slow to react to events. This sluggishness may have deadly consequences as personalities prepares to invade Ukraine and world-regions ramps up his military’s practice runs to conquer Taiwan.   By next month, the world may be at war or America, and her allies, may be utterly discredited and seeking détente…

The United States is now running senate each and every year, and the U.S. national debt is closing in on $30 trillion.   That amount of debt equals almost finance. In 1960, the debt to GDP ratio was around 54%. Now, it is 125%.  As much as I oppose the joe-biden” target=”_blank”>Democrats current spending plan< I have…

There are very few subtle points of theology that are shared by the race car driving Ricky Bobby of the movie “Talladega Nights” and religion, founder of Opus Dei. But there may be one. Ricky Bobby, you see, prefers to pray to the “tiny baby Jesus,” to the chagrin of his wife, but Escriva just…

Politics is a bad religion. People may argue about the purpose of religion” target=”_blank”>religion< Of course, wherever there is a religion that people follow and a related deity to worship, there are sure to be bad actors that try to exploit others’ faith. Any religion has to balance that potential for downside against its upside. …

There he was, nearly 80 years old, living in a sleepy village outside world-regions, with his books and seven cats. His wife had been dead for seven years and his only daughter worked in Afghanistan. He lived a silent rhythm, seldom venturing out, rarely speaking to others.  He was lonely. And on the day he…

I was speaking with a longtime friend the other day, and we were relating how we were both going through some stressful times. We then acknowledged that the last infectious-disease combined with the seemingly growing animosity and even hate between Americans caused by our ever-widening ideological differences was making things exponentially worse. As we closed our…

The days leading up to occasions—even in the midst of a pandemic—are a blur of social and commercial activity.  But the fact of the matter is that Christmas doesn’t begin until Christmas day. Try this at your holiday gathering: ask folks if the 12 days of Christmas come before December 25 or after. Much of…

The corporate media doesn’t talk about it. The Republican Party doesn’t talk about it. Most of the Democratic Party doesn’t talk about it.   But what we are seeing today is a massive attack by the corporate elite against the needs of working families and the middle class. During this horrific pandemic, which has taken over 800,000 American…

In only a few days we will be occasions. Some people love the holiday hustle and bustle, and some people find that it emphasizes their loneliness and weariness. How is it going for you?   This is a crazy busy time for me as I add religion to an already overloaded schedule. So I thought I…