A productive life requires focus

February 8, 2011 | 2 comments

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ever turned light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated,

Are you listening or talking

February 7, 2011 | 8 comments

I was at the Principia college campus two weekends ago with my wife to visit our daughter. We watched her swim, caught up on the latest news and had a grand time. On Friday night, the Christian Science Monitor held a

Egypt’s fight for freedom

February 4, 2011 | 7 comments

The Egyptian people’s quest for freedom has much of the world in suspense wondering what is going to happen next. The struggle between the status quo and higher ideals is intense. It’s been building for decades. I was heartened by

Unreliable medical studies

February 3, 2011 | 2 comments

Here’s an article that will sober up many who trust medicine and medical studies. Just printed in Newsweek, “Why almost everything you hear about medicine is wrong,” this report spells out truth long known by many, by rarely admitted by few.