Though I am not one of them, many believe that the policy of teachers unions is to put jobs, salaries and seniority ahead of educational quality, the remains of which is incompetent teachers and the chief reasons children are so poorly educated in public schools. This, of course, is sheer nonsense: some more powerful locals through out the nation have managed to negotiate better education at the table with their respective school boards. Only recently the teachers union in New York after y...

 Most of us think the stock market is the sole indicator of a good or bad economy. However, with so much investment going overseas, it doesn’t tell the whole story. More important is labor statistics. The top retailier, for instance always seems to lead the pack in job creation, but most of it is part time and roughly at minimum wage, but its greatest impact on creating jobs is abroad by importing tons of foreign made goods. There was a time when buying American was the patriotic thing to ...

 Subliminally known for centuries, and surfaced dramatically and tragically on September 11th , is that religion is dangerous when it imposes its will on the political realm. There has always been religious lag, resistance and conflict with respect to modernity and democratization. Ironically, it was Christ who first introduced the concept of separation — "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s." Of course, religion can never be totally isolated...

Turkey of the wild met by the roaring musket became the first feast.  Stacked hay and pumpkin companions under the skies warm the vagrant's heart. The children from art made pilgrim hats and wore them over thankful eyes.  Mom sweetens the yams, Grandma whips the potatoes And Gramps carves the bird. In feasting too much and the tummy aches, give thanks for alka-seltzer.

©Rrk, Jan. ‘03   In the McCarthy era the insertion of “God” in the Pledge was a paranoidal defense against “godless” communism. Granting Michael Newdow that a corrective measure is called for, it will never come to pass because it is as permanently engraved in the minds of Americans as “In God We Trust” on currency. That the good doctor equates this aberration with “civil rights...as important and as serious as any in our history” is ludicrous. He thinks he is perceived as a “second class...