Last week the LA Times ran a story saying that the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is about to reduce “its” estimate of the amount of shale oil that can be recovered from the Monterrey Shale under California by 96 percent.

Having asserted in this column last week the “substantiality” of God over notions nothing more than mental constructs, now comes my effort at defining the meaning of “God.” To what does that refer? Every person who has ever lived has been challenged in one way or another to come to […]

This past weekend marked the 60th Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

The mindless Obama bashing by Republicans has sunk to new depths this week, as they try to undermine Michelle Obama’s healthy school-lunch standards. Keeping children healthy shouldn’t be a partisan issue, but if the First Lady had spoken in favor of oxygen, the GOP would have campaigned for carbon dioxide. […]

Some 15 years ago when the current concept of peak oil was posited, it was all going to be simple.

Mother’s Day this Sunday marked the start of National Women’s Health Week, a time to recognize the great strides we’ve made for women’s healthcare equality, but also a reminder of the challenges that remain. Once faced with disproportionately higher healthcare costs, now, under the Affordable Care Act, not only are […]

Now that I have undertaken in the recent past couple of months to review and comment on the unhappy history and influence of powerful elites who have used a fundamentalist deviation of the Christian religion to destabilize and menace one of the more enlightened communities in the U.S., I feel […]

It would be insane to demand that universities dispense materials that might lead to students having mental health problems or committing suicide. Yet, The Washington Times reports that a Christian legal outfit, Liberty Counsel, is doing just that. They are sending threatening letters to Virginia’s top universities calling on them […]

Thousands of “Dreamers” across Virginia woke up to incredible news last week when Attorney General Mark Herring announced that undocumented students who were brought to the United States as children qualified for in-state tuition at Virginia’s colleges and universities.

To the careful observer, there were more caveats in Fed Chief Janet Yellen’s testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress yesterday than there are potholes in the D.C. region following the harsh winter’s weather. Her phrases like “very disturbing” and “highly unusual” were glossed over by her […]