What were those stars at the Hope for Haiti phone bank really saying?

January 23, 2010/

Quite unknown to the participants in last evening’s ‘Hope for Haiti’ all star telethon, martyduren.com has been able to speak with a listener...

Interview with Pulitzer Prize winning author, Douglas Blackmon-Part 4

January 21, 2010/

Today brings the fourth and last part of the interview with Douglas Blackmon. (Click for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.) Thanks...

Our problem is bigger than a Massachusetts senate race

January 20, 2010/

With Scott Brown’s win and Martha Coakley’s concession Republicans are rejoicing that the 60 vote, filibuster proof lead in the senate is gone...

Interview with Pulitzer Prize winning author, Douglas Blackmon-Part 3

January 20, 2010/

Douglas A. Blackmon is the Atlanta bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal and winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction...

Interview with Pulitzer Prize winning author, Douglas Blackmon-Part 1

January 18, 2010/

A lost segment of American history is revealed by Pulitzer Prize winning author Doug Blackmon.

Martin Luther King, Jr, ‘I Have a Dream,’ speech video

January 18, 2010/

Quite simply one of the great American speeches and of the greatest speeches of human history.

‘Do It Anyway,’ a poem by Mother Teresa

January 16, 2010/

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;...

Celebrities and the cult of over importance

January 15, 2010/

Foreign Policy magazine posted a sobering history of the last half-century of Haitian “natural” disasters like hurricanes and flooding to human disasters Papa...

Pants on the ground? USA Today on ‘General’ Larry Platt

January 14, 2010/

Someone over at USA Today communities wasted no time in researching American Idol hit, General Larry Platt, after he performed his infectious Pants...