People wrapped up in themselves make very small parcels. Empty hearts have room for nothing while full hearts always have room for more. From A. C. Grayling “The Choice of Hercules: pleasure, duty and the good life in the 21st Century” Are those who think mainly about money who preoccupied with tax by definition the …
The United States has by far the highest rate of firearms death compared to any other industrialized nation. (Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health. "Racial Disparities and Firearm Deaths Among Youth.") The rate of firearm homicide in the United States is 19 times higher than that of 35 other high-income countries. (Krug …
Leviticus 24: 16 tells the reader that the blasphemer is to be put to death; Luke 12: 10 says that blaspheming against the Holy Spirit is "unforgivable", and Mark 3:29 says blasphemy is an "eternal sin". Blasphemy laws violate civil liberties and freedom of speech. People, must be able to exchange ideas in public, in …
The number of US deaths in Iraq has just reached 4000, more than those killed on 9/11 (not that the two are in any way linked, except in the minds of those who just want vengeance, any vengeance). According to an Associated Press breakdown of the figure, 97% of deaths occurred after US President George …
In Britain, of the 200,000 books on sale last year, only 10,000 sold over 3,500 copies. Of the 1.3 million titles sold in the US in 2004, only two per cent sold more than 5000 copies. The Times, 16 February I
