LIMITATIONS ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH: A Canadian Perspective (Republished by Request) By Roderick MacDonald   Watching CNN of late, it’s hard for a Canadian to get caught up in the hoopla about the recent US midterm election. Nearly everything else of interest was eclipsed by exhaustive (if not exhausting) reports on polls, probabilities and proclivities […]

An Outside Curve By Michael McGrath(Republished by Request)Reply to Jim Tuck’s Bleeding Heart Liberal Article   Whoa back, Friar Tuck! It seems to me that in your last “Inside Straight” (Ojo, Nov. 2009), you are advocating the burning of another “witch.” We more or less gave that up as a country when we adopted the

Stars By Kathy Koches   I lie on my bed, gazing out the window at the night sky, and I am filled with wonder at the beauty spread out before me. The twinkling stars seem to kiss the mountains and sparkle off the waters of Lake Chapala. I feel as if I can reach out

Intercultural Communication By Tracy Novinger   (Ed. Note: What follows is an excerpt from Ms. Novinger’s excellent book. It was published by the University of Texas Press, sells for $16.95 and can be purchased from amazon.com) Communication between the United States and Mexico will always be difficult but never impossible. The successful U.S. corporation Corning

Fiction By John Ward, himself a fictionswazijohn@icloud.com   Fiction. Life is a fiction. Not even a well-written fiction. Who authored this drivel? Some say God. Some say Nature. Still others say the Thetans that sprang from L. Ron’s dementia and greed. I’d like to know the truth but the likelihood of truly discovering the truth

Order In The Court? By Jim Rambo   (Ed. Note: This is the second in a short series of columns about the author’s experiences over his long career as a prosecutor up in the “old country.”) THE JUDGE SUMS UP During jury selection in a murder trial before Judge Carl Goldstein, the prospective jurors were

There Are Always Consequences By David Moss   The phone rang a few minutes ago. My friend said he was canceling our lunch together. “It was just too cold,” he told me, “to go out.” We made the usual global warming jokes and wondered who had had the bright idea to hold an international meeting

THE NEW SCIENCE OF STRESS—Self-Evolvement Series By Anna Elena BerlinCPC, Experience of Life Researcher   A University of Wisconsin (Univ. of WI) at Madison study conducted in 2012 by Keller, Litzelman, and Wisk examines the relationship between participants’ stress levels, the perception that stress affects their health, and health and mortality outcomes in a nationally

MY OP-ED! (Sort of…) By Maggie Van Ostrand Maya Doomsday(First published in 2010)   I’m sick and tired of hearing disagreements between the U.S.A. and Mexico. First, there’s the emigration thing with fences and coyotes and blustering politicians; second is the drug thing where the U.S. blames Mexico for their own addictive population; and now