I am a Palestinian born in the United States. My father is from a town in the West Bank and immigrated to the United States as a young man just before the war of 1967. He does not have the right to return to his hometown to live, but he, his brother and sisters travel back to visit family that still live in their childhood home. I am planning my first trip to Palestine this summer after over a ten year absence. Like many Palestinians in the diaspora, my mind stays in Palestine while physically removed from it.

The open letter I published last week on Daily Kos convinced computer chip giant AMD Corporation to change a product code name, according to an online report on technology site CNET News. I had complained about the company's recent decision to name a new computer chip "Congo" because of the connection between conflict minerals used in electronic devices and the brutal war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

I learned last week that my friend and law school classmate Luke Cole had died in a car accident while vacationing with his wife in Uganda. Luke was an incredible guy with an infectious positive energy about him and the belief that he could change the world for the better. In a number of big and small ways, he did.

Let's get something straight: No one is going to take anyone's guns away. There is no gun ban coming from the Obama administration. The rhetoric about gun bans is ridiculous. Most of us know the NRA leadership and others use the specter of gun bans to raise money. But, it's divisive, and damaging for all law-abiding gun owners.

In 1998, the murder of Matthew Shepard sent shock waves through the nation. A 21-year-old gay student at the University of Wyoming, Shepard was brutally beaten, tortured, tied to a fence, and left for dead. Eighteen hours later, a bicyclist found Matthew, initially thinking he was a scarecrow. He was rushed to the hospital and died five days later. Now, more than a decade later, the U.S. Senate is set to vote on a bill that would give the government additional tools to combat and prevent such heinous acts.bias-motivated violence. Though it is widely believed and

There's a war going on. It's happening mostly behind the scenes, at the desks of a coven of crooked bureaucrats and banksters nationwide. If you thought the bank bail out ate a hole in your pocket, look at what the banksters, unindicted bureaucrats and land thieves have been doing to the nation's farmers and to the security of your food supply.

A recent study was done on past climactic shifts that could spell out less doom than we had feared. As many people know, our planet has been in an ice age for the last 2.58 million years or so -- within this period of time there have been several massive shifts of cooling and warming. While we cannot directly see the creatures that were effected by these shifts, we can look through the fossil record and search for clues regarding them.

Desperately looking for something, anything, to discredit the Obama White House, Republicans have been trying to promote the story about how the White House summarily dismissed AmeriCorps' inspector general Gerald Walpin as a politicized firing. The Republicans are trying desperately to make it stick as a black mark against the Obama Administration.

I am pretty far removed from a prude. In my heyday, I was a wild "try anything" (and everything) type. As a parent, however, I find the Calvin Klein orgy ad campaign offensive. The company has posted a giant billboard that intimates a young woman is involved in an orgy with three men.

On June 10th, the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) filed charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that school "turnarounds," a "Renaissance 2010" policy, have a disparate impact on African American teachers. Teachers who filed the charges contend that African American teachers suffer a disproportionately adverse impact.

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