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Published April 30, 2013
No rational adherent to a faith or movement would believe that blowing up people in a road race like the Boston Marathon is likely to bring about any real goal.
Published April 22, 2013
As law enforcement searched for the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect last week, why didn't police say, "if you have a licensed firearm, make sure it is within reach, that it is loaded and that your family members are nearby."
Published April 18, 2013
How do people go on, waking up one day, with concerns as beautifully and poetically mundane as getting the grocery shopping done or the kids off to school, then ending the day with a lost limb or a lost loved one? After the medical healing is done, how is the psyche restored?
Published April 16, 2013
The bombings mean that any street corner, in any American City, is vulnerable -- that terror need not come from the sky, nor target iconic skyscrapers and national landmarks.
Published April 15, 2013
The underlying problem common to all the recent mass shootings has been untreated or undertreated mental illness.
Published April 10, 2013
Take all the guns away. Take all the knives away. The number of victims of murders with no apparent motive—born of undertreated, poorly treated or untreated mental illness—will be reduced not one bit.
Published April 06, 2013
Mike Rice, the now-disgraced basketball coach at Rutgers, fired for physically assaulting and verbally abusing his players, could be the poster boy for more than one issue.
Published March 27, 2013
With the Supreme Court now hearing cases centering on the legality of a federal ban on gay marriage and California’s ban on gay marriage, the real way our nation should address marriage rights is to get government out of the marriage business, altogether.
Published March 26, 2013
Has New York Mayor Bloomberg already made Americans soda shy?
Published March 18, 2013
At a recent annual meeting of the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women, Dr. Miriam Grossman, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, spoke on her belief that the groups like the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Sexuality Education & Information Council of the U.S. (SEICUS) are exposing young people to peril through their sexual education and sexual freedom initiatives