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Christmas 2005
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The Christmas Story and Other Redeeming Myths
   
December 28, 2005
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The Deceptions of War
   
January 4, 2006
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Why Not Democracy in the Workplace
   
January 15, 2006
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Gandhi, King, and Thoreau: Three Principles of Non-Violence
   
January 18, 2006
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A Woman's Right to Choose Hangs in the Balance
   
January 25, 2006
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Happy 300th Birthday, Ben!  Franklin and Religious Liberalism
   
February 1, 2006
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The Many Sins of Moscow's New St. Andrews College
   
February 8, 2006
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A Runaway Train: Administrative Salaries Steam Ahead of Faculty
   
February 15, 2006
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Was Katrina the Wrath of God?
   
February 22, 2006
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Happy 274th Birthday, George!
   
March 1, 2006
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Karma, Character, and America's Destiny
   
March 8, 2006
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We Are All Liberals: Well, Almost All
   
March 15, 2006
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Wonder That Was - And Still Is - India
(coming soon)
   
March 22, 2006
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Would Saddam Have Been Better?
Three Disastrous Years in Iraq
   
March 29, 2006
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Anti-Intellectualism in America's Future
   
April 4, 2006
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The Gospel of Weak Belief
   
April 11, 2006
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Mad Max Meets Jesus Christ
   
April 18, 2006
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Chilling Parallels Between Christian and Islamic Fundamentalism
   
April 25, 2006
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Why Reagan Can't Save the Republicans
   
May 2, 2006
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The Real Meaning of Sodomy
   
May 9, 2006
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A Visit to the Land of Chinggis Khan
   
May 16, 2006
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The Moment of Truth for America's Death Penalty
   
May 23, 2006
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The Brutality Connection: Abu Ghraib and America's Prisons
     
May 30, 2006
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Is the Gap So Great Between Retro Red and Metro Blue?
   
June 6, 2006
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"Happy Hour" is Not What Aristotle Had in Mind
   
June 13, 2006
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Liberals: Take Back the Flag!
   
June 20, 2006
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"Bring Them On!"
Al-Zarqawi Responds to Bush’s Call

   
June 27, 2006
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Good King Now, But Bad King Later?
Bhutan Should Choose Democracy
   
July 4, 2006
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Thank Adams and Jefferson for 230 Years Without Religious Conflict
   
July 11, 2006
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Long Live the Braceros:
Essential Guest Workers Not Felons
   
July 18, 2006
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Beheading, Hooding, and Water Boarding:

CIA Torture in Vietnam , Latin America, and Iraq (Part 1)

   
July 25, 2006
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Beheading, Hooding, and Water Boarding:

CIA Torture in Vietnam , Latin America, and Iraq (Part 2)

   
August 1, 2006
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Historical Revisionism at Moscow's Trinity Festival
   
August 8, 2006
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New St. Andrews College:
Among the Top 40 Bible Colleges
   
August 15, 2006
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Iraq :

First Step Forward; Three Steps Back

   
August 22, 2006
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Vietnam, Iraq, and Lebanon:
Superpower Overkill Backfires
   
September 5, 2006
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Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
   
September 12, 2006
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Un-Declaring the War on Terror
   
September 19, 2006
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The Woman Who Drew the Boundaries of Iraq
   
September 26, 2006
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You're Doing One Heckuva Job on the Economy, Bushie
   
October 3, 2006
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Mahatma Gandhi: Charismatic Saint of Nonviolence
   
October 10, 2006
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Afghanistan As Narcostan As Well As Jidadistan

   
October 17, 2006
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Congress Caves In To Bush On Detainee Bill
   
October 24, 2006
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Should Former College Deans Retain Their High Salaries
   
October 31, 2006
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What Part of Equality Don't You Understand?
It's Indivisible and Universal Anyway

   
November 7, 2006
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Convergence Not Conversion:
Religious Unity in India

   
November 14, 2006
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Some Reflections on Veterans Day, 2006
   
November 21, 2006
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Buddhist Nationalism and Religious Violence in Sri Lanka
   
November 28, 2006
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Their Souls Live On In The Cemetery of Books
   
December 5, 2006
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Virtue, Morality, and Expediency
   
December 12, 2006
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The Man Who Brought The Spanish Inquisition to Chile: Augusto Pinochet, Donald Rumsfeld, and Torture
   
December 19, 2006
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Whistleblowers Need More Protection at the University of Idaho
   
December 19, 2006
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Palouse Pundit Celebrates First Year of Broadcasting
   
January 2, 2007
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Danish Social Democracy and "The Third Way"
   
January 9, 2007
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America's Health Care is a National Disgrace
   
January 15, 2007
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How Did We Lose Our Racial Color Blindness?
   
January 23, 2007
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Happy 270th Birthday Tom Paine
   
January 30, 2007
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Selling Latah Health Services to Gritman Medical Center is a Wise Idea
   
February 6, 2007
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A Runaway Train: Administrative Salaries Steam Ahead of Faculty By 99 Percent
   
February 13, 2007
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God is Not a Scientific Hypothesis
     
February 20, 2007
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Two Presidents Named George and the Golden Rule
The First Follows It; The Second Doesn't
    
February 27, 2007
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Deceptions of War Reconfirmed
   
March 6, 2007
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Queen's "Tribe" is Leaving Iraq
   
March 13, 2007
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Ed the Viking, Greenland, and Global Warming
   
March 20, 2007
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The Inquisition is Alive and Well:
Father Jon Sobrino Punished for Helping the Poor
   
March 27, 2007
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Tolerance for Islam in the Early American Republic
   
April 3, 2007
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Women, Bonobos, and Peace
   
April 10, 2007
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Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles
   
April 17, 2007
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What Ever Happened to the Last Judgment
   
April 24, 2007
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America's Moral Obligation for Global Warming
   
May 1, 2007
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New St. Andrews College Must Earn the Respect of Other Academic Institutions
   
May 8, 2007
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The Imam of Ait Kassem Serves Lunch
   
May 15, 2007
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A Chilling Connection Between
Nanjing, China (1853) and Moscow, Idaho (2003)
   
May 23, 2007
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Catholics May Have Good Reasons to Support Abortion Reform
   
May 29, 2007
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The Passing of an Ugly Giant of the religious Right
   
June 5, 2007
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Relative Violence in Christianity and Islam
   
June 13, 2007
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God is Dead (Again!): Secular Fundamentalists Fight Back
   
June 20, 2007
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The Global Peace Index:
Norway #1; USA #96
   
June 27, 2007
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Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, Takes His Country in a New Direction
   
July 4, 2007
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Senator Brownback is Confused About Evolution
   
July 11, 2007
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The Living Goddess of Bhaktapur Loses Her Job
   
July 18, 2007
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America's Health Care is a National Disgrace and an International Embarrassment
Pert 2
   
July 25, 2007
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The Overuse and Abuse of Part-Time Faculty
   
July 31, 2007
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Moscow's Trinity Festival Features Fraudulent Calvinists and Questionable Trinitarians
   
August 8, 2007
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Academic Tenure Is Not Sacrosanct:
The Cases of Professors Churchill and Maki
   
August 15, 2007
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Muslim Democrats and Republicans Have Some Ignorant Idaho Detractors
   
August 22, 2007
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Soles Hundreds of Feet Thick:
Visualizing Economic Inequality in America
   
August 29, 2007
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Faulty Historical Parallels:
Bush Draws, Once Again, The Wrong Lessons
   
September 5, 2007
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Lost in a World of Red and Green:
Colorblind Males as a Neglected Minority
   
September 12, 2007
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Here's to Good Royalty:
A Defense of Constitutional Monarch
   
September 19, 2007
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IKEA: The Progressive Big Box Store From Sweden
   
September 26, 2007
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Building Bridges With Our Muslim Neighbors
By Acknowledging Their Cultural Heritage
     
October 3, 2007
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Moscow's Calvinist College Makes the New York Times
   
October 10, 2007
(PDF File available)
A Denmark Retrospective:
Fond Memories for Me and 41 Years of Socioeconomic Progress for the Danes
   
October 17, 2007
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The Three Ironies of Ed Iverson's Report From Eastern Johnbirchistan
   
October 24, 2007
(PDF File available)
The 454th Anniversary of the Burning of Michael Servetus
   
October 31, 2007
(PDF File available)
The Upcoming City Council Election
   
November 7, 2007
(PDF File available)
Benazir Bhutto Returns Home to Cheers and Bombs
   
November 21, 2007
(PDF File available)
The Failure of Abstinence-Only Sex Education
   
November 28, 2007
(PDF File available)
Face to Black Face With King Tut
        
December 5, 2007
(PDF File available)
India's Day of Infamy:
The Destruction of the Babri Mosque on December 6, 1992
     
December 19, 2007
(PDF File available)
Civility is a Two-Way Street:
Christ Church and Her Detractors
   
December 26, 2007
(PDF File available)
Pontius the Pilot and the Flight to Egypt
   
January 2, 2008
(PDF File available)
Blaming the Faculty:
Far More Bad Than Good in the Yardley Report
   
January 16, 2008
(PDF File available)
Bayard Rustin: Tha Gay Man Who Organized the 1963 March on Washington
   
January 23, 2008
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The Trials and Tribulations of Providing and Obtaining Legal Abortions
   
January 30, 2008
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Why Not Democracy in Higher Education Workplaces?
   
February 6, 2008
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Indonesia: Rich Hindu Past and Moderate Muslim Future
   
February 13, 2008
(PDF File available)
Quick Settlement of Mexican Wal-Mart Worker Strike is Suspicious
   
February 20, 2008
(PDF File available)
Liberal Religion and Abraham Lincoln
   
February 26, 2008
(PDF File available)
The Meterley Report: Always Giving 3.37 Inches More Than Yardley
   
March 5, 2008
(PDF File available)
"Don't Tread On Me": Americans Rise Up Against Alien Invaders
     
March 13, 2008
(PDF File available)
Progress in Iraq is Either Temporary or Illusory
   
March 19, 2008
(PDF File available)
Tibetans Struggle in Dealing With an Orwellian Government
   
March 26, 2008
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Olympia Brown: Leading Suffragette and America's First Ordained Woman Minister
   
April 2, 2008
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On The Importance of Three Cups of Tea
   
April 9, 2008
(PDF File available)
The Meandering Maverick:
No Straight Talk From McCain on Religion
   
April 9, 2008
(PDF File available)
One Haitian Woman Struggles to Save Her People and Her Land
   
April 23, 2008
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Rapa Nui:
A Case Study in Ecological Disaster
   
April 30, 2008
(PDF File available)
Graduate Teaching Assistants: Exploited Labor on America's Campuses
    
May 7, 2008
(PDF File available)
The Doctrine of Discovery and the Christian Conquest of the World
   
May 14, 2008
(PDF File available)
Good Manners, Civility, and Diplomacy
   
May 21, 2008
(PDF File available)
Dear President White: You Owe Us at Least Another five Years
   
May 28, 2008
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Sandpoint Nurses May Lead Idaho Workers in a New Direction
   
June 4, 2008
(PDF File available)
Two Himalayan Kingdoms Give Up their Kings
   
June 11, 2008
(PDF File available)
The U.S. Starts Killing Its Own Again
   
June 18, 2008
(PDF File available)
Our Troops Deserve Better Support When They Come Home
   
June 25, 2008
(PDF File available)
Detainees Are People Too: Supreme Court Upholds Magna Carta
   
July 2, 2008
(PDF File available)
Let's Not Forget the Ladies of the American Revolution
   
July 9, 2008
(PDF File available)
Denmark Leads the World in Wind Power
   
July 16, 2008
(PDF File available)
Warning to the GOP: Don't Mess With Medicare
   
July 23, 2008
(PDF File available)
The Lake Woebegone Blues: Where Can I Buy a Good Green Car
   
July 30, 2008
(PDF File available)
The People of Moscow Raise $35,000 for Schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan
   
August 6, 2008
(PDF File available)
Barack Obama is Right About the Surge
   
August 13, 2008
(PDF File available)
Headscarves, Secularism, and Religious Freedom
   
August 20, 2008
(PDF File available)
Please Register Here To Protest, But We Might arrest You If You Do
   
August 27, 2008
(PDF File available)
Krishna and Christ:
Hindu and Christian Saviors
   
September 3, 2008
(PDF File available)
The Employee Free Choice Act: Restoring Democracy in the American Workplace
   
September 10, 2008
(PDF File available)
Obama's Health Plan Works in the Bay State: McCain's Would Be a Disaster
   
September 17, 2008
(PDF File available)
McCain's Pit Bull is Waging Cultural Warfare
   
September 24, 2008
(PDF File available)
Will Sarah Palin Go the Way of Spiro Agnew
Troopergate May Speed her Departure
 
October 1, 2008
(PDF File available)
Gandhi's Deep Religious Pluralism
   
October 8, 2008
(PDF File available)
Memo to McCain: The Economy Tanked Long Ago
   
October 15, 2008
(PDF File available)
McCain: Straight, But Unwise, Talk On Foreign Policy
    
October 22, 2008
(PDF File available)
Palin Destroys McCain's Credibility On Energy and the Environment
   
October 30, 2008
(PDF File available)
Why I'm Voting for Barack Obama and Joe Biden
   
November 5, 2008
(PDF File available)
Hate Crimes Against Gays Continue; Necessary Legislation is Stalled
   
November 12, 2008
(PDF File available)
The Persecution of Christianity in India, Sri Lanka, and Iraq
   
November 19, 2008
(PDF File available)
Muslim Challenge Spurs Inter-Faith Dialogue
   
December 3, 2008
(PDF File available)
The Gateway of India Becomes a Gateway of Death
   
December 10, 2008
(PDF File available)
The Day Confucius Went to the United Nations: Chinese Influence on the Declaration of Human Rights
    
December 24, 2008
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The Christ Child, Illegitimacy, and Meaning of the Gospel
   
January 14, 2009
(PDF File available)
The War in Gaza: "Bombing 1.5 Million People in a Cage"
Civilians Suffer the Most in the War on Terror
   
January 21, 2009
(PDF File available)
The Naked Emperor "Decider" Retires to His Ranch
    
January 28, 2009
(PDF File available)
Idaho's University Program Reduction Procedures "Severely Deficient"
Obama's Strengths: Superb Intellect, Openness, and Pragmatism
(PDF file available)
   
February 3, 2009
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High-Speed Rail Key to Infrastructure Renewal
   
February 11, 2009
(PDF File available)
Brave Somali Woman Rejects Islam With a Vengeance
   
February 16, 2009
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Interrogations Simply Need To Be Humane, Not "Enhanced"
   
February 25, 2009
(PDF File available)
Failed Drug Policy From Nixon to Bush
   
March 4, 2009
(PDF File available)
500,000 Frozen Embryos Cry Out To Be Born
   
March 11, 2009
(PDF File available)
The Iraq War Was Not Worth the Sacrifice: American and Iraqi Lives Lost; Iraqi Culture Destroyed
     
March 18, 2009
(PDF File available)
Internal Pick Best for University of Idaho President
   
March 25, 2009
(PDF File available)
The Bamiyan Buddhas: The Destruction of Afghan Cultural Treasures
   
April 2, 2009
(PDF File available)
Animals are People, Too: Overcoming the Myth of Human Uniqueness
   
April 15, 2009
(PDF File available)
Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson: "Atheist and Leveler from Virginia"
   
April 22, 2009
(PDF File available)
State Faculty Union Responds to Financial Crisis: Furloughs may be the Best Option
   
April 29, 2009
(PDF File available)
When Good Fishermen Become Bad Bankers: The Collapse of the Icelandic Economy
   
May 6, 2009
(PDF File available)
The Power of Pride:
Vice or Virtue
   
May 13, 2009
(PDF File available)
Melvina Reynolds: The Poetess of Protest
   
May 20, 2009
(PDF File available)
The Party of Nehru and Gandhi Wins Big in India
   
May 27, 2009
(PDF File available)
More Union Cards and Fewer Credit Cards: Did High Interest Rates Destroy the American Economy
   
June 3, 2009
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U.S. Loses Lead in Higher Education: Now Ranked 10th For Degrees For 25-34 Year-Olds
   
June 10, 2009
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Moscow's Neo-Puritans Rewrite Salem Witch trial History
   
June 17, 2009
(PDF File available)
UI Wastes Money On "Chief Inspiration Officer"
December 30, 2009 Ed Board Risks Legal Action and National Censure With Proposed Personnel Changes
   
December 23, 2009 "Do You Hear What I Hear?" Said the Little Lamb
   
December 16, 2009 The Myth of the Copenhagen Climate Conspiracy
   
December 9, 2009 Copenhagen: Climate Conference's Well Deserved Host
   
December 2, 2009 HIV-AIDS in Southern Africa:
The World's Highest Infection Rates
   
November 25, 2009 The Military, Religion, and Mental Health 
   
November 18, 2009 We Are All Bushmen and Women
 
November 11, 2009 The Constitution, The University, and Freedom of Speech: The Case of Professor Habib Sadid
 
November 4, 2009 A Great Dream Unfulfilled: The Martin Institute at 30
 
October 28, 2009 A Tribute to Forrest Church: Theologian, Historian, Humanitarian
 
October 21, 2009 The Crisis in Idaho Higher Education
 
October 14, 2009 Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Obama
 
October 7, 2009 Not Yet the Mahatma: Gandhi of South Africa
    
September 23, 2009 Desmond Tutu, Allan Boesak, and Nelson Mandela: Giants of South African Liberation
   
September 16, 2009 The Preacher, The Congressman, and the Neo-Confederacy
   
September 9, 2009 Southwest Africa: A Century of Brutal Occupation
   
July 29, 2009 Has Obama Taken His Eyes Off the Prize?
   
July 22, 2009 Could King Hussein Have Stopped Saddam Hussein?
   
July 15, 2009 Should the Head of Nefertiti and the Elgin Marbles Go Back Home?
   
July 8, 2009 World's Largest Island Closer to Independence
   
July 1, 2009 Do You Want Wall Street to Control Your Health Care?
   
June 24, 2009 Parma Research Station Must Continue Its Essential Work
   
June 17, 2009 UI Wastes Money On "Chief Inspiration Officer"