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There is much conversation lately about the Muhammad cartoon controversy, especially with the latest “draw Muhammad” page on Facebook. The reaction from Muslims has been so varied that it is no wonder that most Americans cannot determine what Islam teaches to its followers on how to deal with insults. This …

Lessons do not always take the form of lectures in classrooms or wise sages dispensing advice, sometimes we are taught valuable lessons in moments of crisis. Such was true on September 11, 2001 as terrorists sought to break the spirit of America by crashing airplanes into strategic locations on U.S. …

This wasn’t supposed to happen. At the end of February, after the $787 billion stimulus was approved, the Obama administration predicted that unemployment would average only 8.1 percent this year. Indeed, in February the unemployment rate stood at 8.1 percent. Yet, unemployment now stands at 10.2 percent and keeps rising. …