A World of Speculation

My Name, Too!

I went to the schoolyard to interview a teacher for a story. When I was done, I called to a few of the little girls playing nearby to have their picture taken with the teacher. I got three of them, about third grade, and they stood smiling in a cluster around Mr. G....

Dying for Christ vs. Showing What’s Real

Christians are getting down to the discussion of the two reporters who decided to “convert” to Islam at the point of a gun.Grace asks pertinently:I’m not saying that the martyr’s crown is for everyone. If it was, there would be nothing exceptional about...

Same old playbook

Stella Jatras finds the parallels and the contrasts between the media front in the Hezbollah-Israel war and the one in the Balkans:It appears that Hezbollah has taken a page out of the Bosnian Muslim playbook: Win the PR battle, and you win the war. What better...

Blog blunder fells UA teacher

My schedule has become too intense to follow a lot of the big blog controversies, and this one has been going on so long that even a print newspaper takes notice. But if you want to see why people don’t trust the daily papers, take a look at the story and then...