By Jonathan Langley An estimated 40,000 people (all of whom had been asked to wear blue clothing and paint their hands blue) gathered at noon on Dec. 5 in Grosvenor Square, in the heart London, for what had been billed…
Pan Am Flight 103, terror and compassion
By Jonathan Langley Convenient. That’s what the Aug. 20 release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was. Not just for the terminally-ill Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. But also convenient for British Petroleum, Marks and Spencer,…
God’s dream, the ‘American Dream’ and the health-care debate
By Jonathan Langley “Praise the Lord for the 2nd Amendment.” That was a Twitter post (I just can’t come straight out and call it a “tweet” without feeling like a “twit”) after a recent shooting that resulted in two deaths….