A referendum in southern Sudan next year will determine if this region will become a nation independent from the state currently controlled by the northern al-Bashir government.  Clashes within the northern Darfur region, over the central Nuba mountains, and between the North and the South have raged for 22 years.  The varied distribution of oil [...]

Richard Dawkins is being his usual, polemical self again, this time analyzing Pat Robertson’s comments that the Haitian earthquake resulted from a Haitian pact with the devil: “Needless to say, milder-mannered faith-heads are falling over themselves to disown Pat Robertson, just as they disowned those other pastors, evangelists, missionaries and mullahs at the time of the earlier [...]

So Steve Jobs finally unveiled the mysterious Apple Tablet, officially called the iPad (I like the Apple Tablet name better but that’s just me). You can read a good write-up of the new device here. There was nothing terribly surprising about the announcement or the device itself, in fact it’s designed with all the bells and [...]

Here’s an interesting poll which found that Haitian Americans are critical of the Haitian government’s response to the earthquake but very happy with the U.S. government’s response: A New America Media/Bendixen & Amandi poll of Haitians living in America found 63% disapprove of how the Haitian government has responded to the earthquake.  “The unhappiness runs [...]

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about issues surrounding partisanship. There’s healthcare reform, which divides senators almost completely down party lines. There’s Scott Brown taking one of Massachusetts’ Senate seat, held for over a half-century by liberal lion Teddy Kennedy. And now Obama is planning on putting a spending freeze on some government programs, [...]

South Carolina Governor Andre Bauer commented on the growing problem of poverty in his state: “My grandmother told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that [...]