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As a Christian, a pro-lifer and a journalist, I’m ambivalent about the Planned Parenthood hidden camera sting that was perpetrated here in central New Jersey and reported sporadically by news outlets last week. The California based anti-abortion activist group Live Action sent two actors into a clinic posing as sex traffickers and recorded an employee doling out unethical, dangerous, and illegal advice that would keep the duo in business.
As a Christian I’m uncomfortable with both the failure of the office worker to report the couple to authorities and the entrapment of her by the activists. When is it appropriate to lie? The biblical stories of the midwives who refused to kill male infants as commanded by Egypt’s pharaoh and Rahab’s deception that saved Jewish spies in Jericho both seem to affirm lying when it’s done to save lives, but I question whether or not any lives will be saved as a result of this action.
As a pro-lifer, I doubt this kind of activism ultimately advances the goal of reducing

A few months ago, the police took over the University of Puerto Rico.
Professor Ian A. Bethell Bennett issued the following statement:
He then concluded, “The newly imposed $800 quote to study at UPR bars countless students from access, so they must seek out education in the more expensive private universities.”
This $800 quote served as the basis of the massive university strike, which on January 29th took an unexpected turn. The Puerto Rico S.W.A.T. team swept the streets of Rio Piedras and detained many

Not much has been said or written about the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since the flurry of post-Cancun commentary. So what’s been happening with the climate talks?
In the US, the President Obama’s party got a “shellacking,” as he described it, at the midterm elections. Some inside the Beltway have blamed the magnitude of the Democrats’ defeat on their support for a failed climate bill. Perhaps in response to this conventional wisdom, the president has virtually removed the “c-word” from his

Last month I got a call from a neighbor in Los Angeles who had seen me out walking eight blocks from our building. He was, very considerately, calling to make sure I was okay. He assumed my car had broken down.
This is regular part of life in LA, where the health of your car is the primary suspect in any outing that exposes you to the “elements” (those being sunshine and warm

Egypt is an alarm that highlights the urgent need for change in U.S. foreign policy. It provides President Obama with an opportunity to transform a foreign policy that has often had the opposite effect that was sought and is undermining U.S. economic and national security.
The list of recent policy failures in the Middle East is quite astounding:
The Iraq War, intended to create a Western-style democracy and a base of operations for the

In another life I’m positive I was a teacher (it’s been so long, but I’m pretty sure).
Back in the good old days, running a school or school district seemed so easy.
I could sit in a teacher’s meeting and come up with the correct answers in a split-second.
You didn’t even have to ask me. (And trust me, no one did).
Actually, you didn’t even have to have a teacher’s meeting. I could simply stand in the hallway and share my opinion.
I just knew how things should be done.
Things seemed so simple from my vantage point (in the back… sometimes paying attention).
I was positive I understood all the decisions school administrators should make

Back in 1950, when former silent screen star Gloria Swanson took on the role of Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, her character told the young Joe Gillis that in the days of silent film “We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces!”
The Bay Area has a large and loyal base of silent film fans, many of whom will descend on the Castro Theatre this weekend for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s annual winter event. Attending silent film events at the 1,400-seat Castro has become like a religious ritual for the truly devoted. Not only do they get to experience these films as they were meant to be seen — in a beautiful movie palace with a giant screen — they also have the benefit of hearing live accompaniment on piano, with a small ensemble, or on the theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer organ.
Over the years, three films (which have been restored and are available on Netflix) have brought the audience to a loud standing ovation at their

I know that we are long past the moment for writing down New Year’s Resolutions, but if I may, I’d like to offer one that many educators should have written down for this year: stop having long-winded, non-productive meetings. Long-winded, non-productive meetings are a cancer that is destroying many educators ability to get real work done.
Now I understand the importance of having meetings. Meetings conducted throughout the week amongst folks school-wide, district-wide and state-wide do have some value; ideas and information is exchanged amongst interested and concerned parties in an effort to help kids learn. I am all for that, but in the words of Peter Griffin, “what really grinds my gears” are long, drawn out meetings that do nothing of what they are designed to

The Roadmap is a weekly show by foundersZev Mo Green andRamon B. Nuez Jr., where they interview NYC-based companies andbusinessleaders. They also investigate web culturetrends and how they are affecting companies in the space.
In this week The Roadmap, Zev Green and I had the opportunity to sit down with Grahm Lawlor — CEO/Founder of Ultra Light Startups.
Zev and I attended an Ultra Light Startups meeting at the Microsoft headquarters in NYC.

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Two of the “P.I.G.S.” group members, Spain and Portugal, seem to have a strong likelihood of avoiding any kind of European and IMF external funding assistance, through the same mechanism imposed in Greece and Ireland in exchange for the implementation of a tough austerity measures program. Contrarily, debt-ridden Spain and Portugal are likely going to become examples of how the responsibility of a country’s government and opposition as well as that of its social partners, constitutes a precondition for the potential successful conclusion of the efforts made by a nation for rescuing itself from a potential default on its debt.
Spanish government and labour unions came up together with a broader social agreement to promote those reforms which are needed in order for the country to reverse the bond markets’ suspiciousness and, furthermore, to not be subjected to the painful IMF’s financial supervision. The same happened in Portugal when its Prime Minister and the head opposition found common ground to get their country out of the crisis by building a bilateral

Side by side, Sarah Palin appears more polished and media savvy than Michelle Bachman. Palin’s outfits are sharper and her social media outreach is one of the best there is. However, not too long ago, Palin was a little rough around the edges. The McCain campaign essentially pulled a What Not To Wear on Palin and transformed her into a stylish and savvy

As we mark the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, his most important legacy has gone largely overlooked. Reagan helped to put a caricature of politics at the center of the national debate, and it remains there to this day. In Reagan’s caricature, the central divide between progressives and conservatives is that progressives trust the government to make key decisions on production and distribution, while conservatives trust the market.
This framing of the debate is advantageous for the right since people, especially in the United States, tend to be suspicious of an overly powerful government. They also like the idea of leaving important decisions to the seemingly natural workings of the market.
It is therefore understandable that the right likes to frame its agenda this

The House may vote tomorrow to extend three provisions of the PATRIOT Act and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act that allow the government to conduct domestic surveillance of Americans.
The 112th Congress began with a historic reading of the U.S. Constitution. Will anyone subscribe to the First and Fourth Amendments tomorrow when the PATRIOT Act is up for a vote? I am hopeful that members of the Tea Party who came to Congress to defend the Constitution will join me in challenging the reauthorization.
It is clear that more than eight years after the passage of the PATRIOT Act, Congress has failed to do its job: act as a co-equal branch of government exercising checks and balances over Presidential

The official U.S. response to events unfolding in Egypt remains mixed. Over the weekend, the Obama administration distanced itself from U.S. “crisis envoy” to Egypt Frank Wisner after he issued a statement in support of President Hosni

We all have them: writers who reached us at an early age, wrote something that penetrated our minds, our hearts, our souls; writers who captivated us when our minds were soft and ripe, eager for stories to get lost in. Today, one of mine passed away. His name was Brian Jacques. And I’ll never forget what he did for me.
I’ve aways been a

Ad agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, took irreverence to a whole new low yesterday, making light of the suffering of the people of Tibet.
Years ago, I saw Alex Bugusky and other members of this agency’s creative team in a “battle of the ad bands” at New York City’s CBGB. The Miami hipsters had named their mock band Iconic Trucker Hat — I didn’t understand them then and I certainly don’t now.
CPB has earned a reputation for witty and catchy — but perhaps it’s time they looked out of their posh windows and realized their parodies are at the expense of a nation ravaged by genocide and torture — to a nation of people led by an exiled Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
Tibetans have suffered well-documented abuses since China’s illegal occupation over 50 years ago. Forced labor camps, disappearances, forced sterilization of women, torture — these are nothing to laugh at.
Timothy Hutton leads the ad with, “Mountainous Tibet, one of the most beautiful places in the world. This is Timothy Hutton, the people of Tibet are in trouble, their very culture is in jeopardy — but they still whip up an amazing fish curry, and since 200 of us just bought at Groupon.com, we’re getting $30 of Tibetan food for just $15 at Himalayan Restaurant in Chicago.”
Perhaps

One life that is lost senselessly is one too many. Since 2005, more than 1,800 Ohioans have been killed in auto accidents involving an alcohol impaired driver. We can develop the technology needed to save lives by stopping drunk drivers from operating a car in the first place.
Ideas for this technology already exist. We just need to help advance their development and utilization.
That is why I plan to join a bipartisan group of colleagues in introducing the ROADS SAFE

THE TILLMAN STORY ($30.95 BluRay or $24.95 regular DVD; Sony) — What makes a true patriot? Is it blind devotion? My country right or wrong? Or is the true — or rather, the better patriot, the one that helps their country grow and be true to its principles — the one who supports but questions, challenges and cherishes? The one who trusts, but verifies? The more valuable patriot of course is the later and an excellent example of that is the late Pat Tillman, a journeyman player in the NFL who became a national symbol of pride when he left his team to join up after 9-11. Tillman was eagerly seized upon by the Bush Administration as a potent symbol. That was only one of the many mistakes Bush made during the lead-up to the Iraq War. Tillman served bravely but he also kept questioning and eventually this free-thinking atheist decided the continued occupation of Iraq was

“The message of Resignation.com is clear,” she wrote. “Take responsibility, Mr President, for what you have done to your party, your office and your country, and continue your 'journey' of 'reconciliation and healing' in private.”
But a political transformation was not far off. Even before she divorced Michael Huffington in 1997 (he later announced he was gay), she had broken ties with the Republicans, leaving the party in

Just last week, Global Times reporter Alex Taggart challenged colleague Chris Hawke to a race: traverse the entire Beijing subway system in a day. According to the Times, this kind of one-day subway challenge had never been completed before in Beijing, though it had been done, famously, in London and New York.
Alex lost the race, but he told me he enjoyed the journey. “It confirmed my belief that the subway is not only the most logical mode of transport in a city as clogged as Beijing, it’s also a great deal of fun to ride, and challenges you to derive humour from the frustration that it often presents you with.”
Had I known early enough, I might have joined the two. I love trains, whether they’re underground or

Anyone that has a serious interest in or is involved in making policy regarding our national security, especially in light on the ongoing debate around military commissions for terrorist suspects and the disposition of the Gitmo holding facility, should read a recently-published book entitled Courting Disaster by Marc C. Thiessen (Regenery 2010). Mr. Thiessen is a former speechwriter for President George

Still waiting for your UPS package? The New York Post recently reported that UPS continues to blame the snow for late deliveries in Brooklyn and Queens. In Manhattan, however, it’s the same story. What’s wrong with New York City UPS? Try tracking down your errant package at one of their customer service centers and you’ll soon find out.
The customer service center is a small, claustrophobic purgatory. People stand at the margins of the little room looking defeated and

Since you’re obviously in need of V-Day help, we checked in with the as-radiant-on-the-inside-as-they-are-on-the-outside girls at Glamour magazine to get some can’t fail gift ideas. Check out these ideas below.

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