As a keen observer of times and seasons, I believe that we may have just flipped a new page in history through the recent tragedy in Arizona. Nine-year old Christina Green, a victim of the recent Tucson shooting became the providential seed of a new democracy, by a new generation, for a new people. Her death is a symbolic transfer of the baton to fresh minds and ideals in the race towards the restoration of the glory of a nation in transition.

As the nation travailed in the pain of Septemb...

Hollywood superstar, Mel Gibson, is in the smoldering spotlight once again. No, he is not on a worldwide promotional tour for a new summer blockbuster. Hey Mel, my son-in-law is anxiously awaiting Lethal Weapon IV, but that’s for another day. Judging from the recent public-relations disaster whirlwind in which Mel Gibson seems to have dim-wittily engulfed himself, surely, he is at ease with being in the spotlight and on the spot. A certain superhero once said – “With great power comes...

I have a reservoir of respect for expertise. Be it in science, technology, art, you name it. My reason is simple; our individual gifts as humans, no matter what they may be, are given to us for the benefit of all mankind. Nevertheless, these gifts come to us  with a price of diligence, and God rewards all diligence. So who is to blame when the “real experts” drop the ball and there is such disaster that affect the lives and source of livelihood of people in an entire region? Do not think ...