My blog tackles current events mainly focusing on challenges facing the youth, education, society, and family.
I have been keeping up with the Occupy Wall Street protest movement and I must say that while I do not condone the actions of everything taking place in these protests I can understand the dissonance. The anger is rooted in frustration from the struggling...
What took so long? Penn State ultimately decided it had no further option but to immediately part ways with disgraced Coach Joe Paterno and the President Graham Spanier of Penn State. This story is tragic on so many levels. For starters it is tragic for...
Saturday we lost one of the greatest talents in the R&B and Pop industry. I am sure looking back we will all remember where we were when we heard the news. I was on my sofa watching an old classic movie The Odd Couple when my wife told me that Whitney...
Last week I addressed the need for quality education and how it is the responsibility of the village to help raise the child especially in underserved communities. I have heard some say that the poor generally lack work ethic and suffer from bad role...
It is crazy how life can take unexpected twist and turns and then be met by unfortunate fate. Trayvon Martin, who was a young African American teenager, was fatally shot on Feb 26th while walking from the store to buy candy for his little brother. The...
This week the Supreme Court is reviewing whether President Obama's signature Affordable Health Care Act is constitutional. The outcome of this ruling will not only have political implications for the President but more importantly have a profound impact...
Without question the biggest story of the NFL season this year has been Tim Tebow. Despite whether one thinks that Tebow is a great NFL quarterback, it is without question that he is exciting to watch and has engineered some of the most dramatic last...
There is no secret that our country has been polarized over the issue of politics even to the point where we are in the midst of a fierce government shutdown. Politics can be a very divisive topic even among believers. I had a chance to speak with a good...
Bullying has increasingly become an issue as of late in the news. It seems far too often that I am reading in the news about a young person who has tragically taken his or her own life due to being a victim of bullying. The solutions that I hear often...
About a month ago Indianapolis re-elected Republican incumbent Mayor Greg Ballard who defeated Democrat Melina Kennedy. I must admit I support a lot of the ideas that Ballard has put forth. He certainly has been a good caretaker of the city keeping the...
I guess I am on the wrong side of history. At least that is what some will say as the Defense of Marriage Act makes its way through the Supreme Court. This issue has many layers to it with the debate over separation of church and the role of government...
Thanks to Miley Cyrus, Oxford now has officially recognized Twerk as an English word. Well I can’t say that I am not surprised at what took place at the VMAs this past weekend. MTV has been known to push the buttons in terms of decency. It also decided...
We enjoy many great freedoms in this country one of them being the freedom of speech; which often times carries the possibility of controversy especially if they come from high profile individuals. The latest controversy came from Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan...
Whenever I witness Black Friday shoppers storming into stores and behaving badly, I am reminded of the Nobel Prize novel Lord of the Flies. The plot in the book featured a group of British boys stuck on a deserted island trying to govern themselves. Eventually...
On Thursday the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision and voted 5-4 to uphold The Affordable Health Care act better known as Obama Care. My personal conviction is that in the world's richest nation we should cover 50 million Americans who are uninsured....
Americans witnessing the unspeakable and horrific tragedy at Sandy Hook which is now among the worst school shootings on Friday hit so close to home for parents with younger children. Most of you like me probably went home and hugged your kids a little...
Last week President Obama made the announcement that he personally supports Gay Marriage. He did stop short by stating that he still thinks the matter of legalizing same sex marriage still falls to the states. It is unclear how this will play out politically,...
Malcom Gladswell outlines in his book The Tipping Point how small things added up set off social epidemics that profoundly alter a culture. Some of the intriguing things outlined in his book are that human beings are profoundly social beings influenced...
We are in the midst of the election season and candidates running for various political offices desperately rely on surrogates and endorsements to improve their chances of election. Christians are often a targeted voting bloc based on stances on social...
The heinous act surrounding Javon Belcher who murdered his girlfriend in front of her own mother and then drove to the Kansas City Chief’s facility to kill himself is yet another tragic case of the ugly nature of domestic violence. One third of homicides...
Five hundred and forty five individuals is the number of people who have the authority to pass legislation in this country that affects over 350 million people. This number includes Congress, Supreme Court Justices, and the POTUS. It goes without saying...
A woman from Turlock California was fired from her job and is being investigated by Secret Service after posting a racial slur about President Barack Obama. She had called the President the N word and then expressed her hopes that he would be assassinated...
After the shocking tragedy at Newton several months back society is still littered with too much gunfire erupting and lives being lost at heartbreaking frequency. We all were stunned as we witnessed live events play out with Chris Dorner who went on cop...
About a month ago a Republican elected official chastised Michelle Obama's charge on healthy eating by stating that she had a large posterior. His point was that she doesn't seem to be practicing what she preaches. Anyone who has a clue on health and...
Eight million jobs lost in the Great Recession, four dollar gas, and talk show intellectuals stoking fear in Americans that this country is in decline. We see it on TV from MSNBC to Fox news with many so called experts predicting calamity for our country....
