Collecting My Thoughts

  A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocked Afghanistan on Wednesday, June 22. The earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, ki...

Of all the segments I’ve watched on Journey Home (EWTN ), this is one of the most interesting given the struggles today between Muslims an...

On WOSU (PBS) this morning I watched a very moving story about minorities in Pakistan targeted by "militants" (kidnapping, murder,...

According to Reuters, 8 days before the Taliban faction known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) brutally massacred over 130 school childre...

Just an awful, awful sight.  Such beautiful kids. When I have trouble finding the right word, I try Google. Obama can't seem to say, ...

Yesterday we had two fascinating lectures at Lakeside.  First a neighbor who got her first work experience waiting tables at The Abigail (lo...

“CIA drone missiles hit militant targets in Pakistan on Sunday for the first time in a month, as the United States ignored the Pakistani gov...

The Pakistan Taliban strikes again--blew up a very secure area in Karachi, Pakistan, of top government officials and 5-star hotels, accordin...

Washington Post, again late to the party, says: "Arrests suggest U.S. Muslims, like those in Europe, can be radicalized abroad." L...

Will Obama be honoring them on one of their holy days? Hugh’s comments on Jihad Watch The percentage of Pakistan's population that is H...

Will they be allowed to use the T-word? Car bomb. Busy street. Police killed. 90 injured. Wonder if VOA will need to dust off the terrorism...

Magpies and Blackbirds One of the more interesting (and gross) reference questions I answered when I was the librarian in the Veterinary Me...