Over the past few months we've seen thousands of people killed and devastated by natural disasters in China, Burma and the Midwestern United States.  It seems cruel when nature's fickle hand traces a path of devastation and loss in the lives of so many innocent victims.  The lingering question associated with most natural disasters is howMore...

One message that both political parties need to get is that our economy is now just plain stupid.  The rich still get richer and the poor just get left out.  While many economists may still want to debate if America is More...

Frequently, scientists or economists attempt of place a monetary value on human life.

Recently, a group of researchers at Stanford University computed the value of a healthy year of life to be $129,000.  This number represented the threshold beyond which ensuring another quality year of life was no longer financially More...

Recently, a number of questions have been raised about the sincerity of African American patriotism.  These concerns were raised when Senator Obama declined to wear a flag lapel-pin and were greatly amplified by the uncensored criticism of Rev. Jeremiah Wright.  Suddenly, when African Americans were critical of U.S. policy or indicted our nation of institutional racism, we were somehow labeled, unpatriotic.

What White America doesn't understand is More...