Suicide Bombers — Is There Ever Justification?

Is it ever justifiable, suicide bombing in defense of Islam?”
Surely a question of some pertinence today, emphasized by Obama’s announced new war in Afghanistan, supposedly, directed against the Al Quaida, a fanatical fringe of suicide bombers directed against the West and a modern world of nonbelievers. Most informative on this subject is a recent book [...]

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Barack Obama and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Howard Sachs, MD, PhD
The day before the Inauguration I wondered if the Obama presidency would signify fulfillment of Dr. King’s “dream,” a call made in his historic speech at the height of the civil rights movement, on August 28th, 1963.
I wish that I had a clear positive answer to that question, but, unfortunately, I [...]

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President Obama, We Need A Secretary of the Elderly

What Constitutes Hope and Change with the Advent of the New Presidency of Barack Obama
By Howard Sachs, MD, PhD. howardsachs@rocketmail.com
Yesterday, like many of you, I cried as I watched the first African American inaugurated as President of the United States.  But it was not only this historic fact which moved me to tears, but Obama’s [...]

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Post Election Blues

by Howard Sachs MD, PhD
Joe the Plumber addresses a Republican party chief, “ So, what do we do now?” “ Just sit tight and wait.”  “Wait for what?”  “ Well, don’t you remember all those promises of help for guys like you?” “ Sure, but when is it coming, and will it involve a lot [...]

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Palinism is Reminiscent of the McCarthy Era of the 1950s

By Howard Sachs, MD, PhD
Is this occurring with the exception that instead of  looking for communists in every nook and cranny,  it is terrorists who have replaced them according to Sarah Palin.  At the Republican leaders conference in Washington, she persists in defending  her warnings to the American people that  Obama had once associated with [...]

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