Note from submitter, Daniel Geery: This article was written by a friend of mine, Deana Jensen, who died recently in her early nineties. She wrote the piece in her early seventies and published it as a pamphlet, titled “Godwho: Why I am Not a Mormon.” I promised Deana I’d try to… Read full post »

Millions of others do too. I will make the assumption that you are familiar with the Justice Party (JP) and Rocky Anderson in particular, the party’s nominee for President. If my assumption does not apply, please check the links below and explore them to the extent you can.… Read full post »

The health care system in the U.S. is expensive, ineffective, and unjust.  Our medical outcomes are mediocre. We are the only nation in the industrialized world that fails to provide millions of people with basic health care. 

Yet we spend more than twice per capita than the average spent… Read full post »

[Note: I am presenting this for Rocky Anderson, who is running for President on the Justice Party ticket.] 

When I was Executive Director of High Road for Human Rights, I drafted a document entitled A Demand for the Equal and Principled Application of Laws Forbidding War Crimes and Other Heinous… Read full post »

The other evening we had dinner with some good friends, when I mentioned that I was volunteering in Rocky Anderson’s Justice Party Campaign. The fellow who sat across from us replied without hesitation, “He hasn’t got a snowball’s chance in hell!” Not with any malice, si… Read full post »

I would be surprised if any reader did not learn in about fifth grade, and readily accept and still remember that "the equator is an imaginary line around the earth."

Assuming this is so, you can likely still see it in your mind, or at least easily find that imaginary… Read full post »

I have never been able to get overly excited about the U.S. Constitution, for the simple reason that it was ratified 169 years before I was even born, and things change over time, in this case dramatically.

U.S. population expanded from two million to 143 million in those… Read full post »

The success of the OWS movement has blown many folks away, myself included. But many of us can’t fly to New York or Oakland, or may not even live near a city where protests have coalesced.  

Or we may be too old and our legs worn short from earlier marches over… Read full post »

George Bush killed children in your name, with your taxes. Orrin Hatch and countless other "leaders" you voted for supported this (Orrin claimed he was privy to evidence of Iraq's WMDs, but couldn't reveal the sources--he has yet to do so, and it will be his epitaph that… Read full post »

I won't pretend I believed everything I learned in twelve years of Catholic School. In fact, I consider myself a "devout ex-Catholic." However, a few principles that I apparently internalized during my confinement were not all bad. For example, I like a lot of the things Jesus advocated: forgiveness,… Read full post »

Osama bin Laden is said to have addressed the American people on several occasions. As far as I know, no one took the time to write him back, besides myself. Given that “Muslim terrorism” was alleged to be an ideological battle, I hoped to challenge our Number One Bogeyman on that… Read full post »

I recently posted an article titled, “Applying Elementary Teaching Principles to World Behavior.” [www.opednews.com]. I claimed I would follow up with articles on the principles outlined therein, elaborating on the application of them to world behavior.

The first principle I set down wa… Read full post »

 “… I have done such acts as looking (maybe lusting, I pray so hard that I wasn’t) at my self in skimpy underwear. Whenever I wear it I feel like a sexual sensation.

“Yesterday in the bathroom (in front of the mirror), I wiggled my body very rapidly, making my… Read full post »

This is from an earlier article of mine at OpEd News, "Has Jesus Come and Gone?" I think it reasonable to repost this part of the article. The late David Brower was the most intelligent and wisest person I ever met:

Mariah: You were pro-nuclear for about two decades. What… Read full post »

*possibly, in my humble opinion

I spent several weeks contemplating additional "context" that I would add to the following article, which was published originally in the Salt Lake Tribune in 2002. I was going to harp on how all humans have the same DNA, how we all share the same planet,… Read full post »

but only managing a drop of urine (aka, my latter-day lynching by IEA and NEA Unions)

My name is Daniel Geery, and I have a burden I’d like to get off my chest. In doing this, my hope is that the burden will land where it belongs, and ultimately cause… Read full post »

According to what I read online, American track and field star, Michael Johnson, set the world’s speed record for a running human, at 37.267 km/h, or very close to 23 mph.

Now that is fast, indeed faster than I can rollerblade, as I learned from one of those flashing… Read full post »

They say he cried, "Eureka!," leaped with glee from his bathtub, and took to the streets in the buff, still shouting.  I kinda doubt that, but read on...

Archimedes of Syracuse, who lived from about 287 BC to 212 BC, was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, i… Read full post »

I posted Part 1 of this before, but modified that slightly and added this, Part 2. I had teachers and parents in mind while writing it, in addition to concerned citizens generally.

An alternative title for Part 2 of this article might be Evaluating Without Testing: Caring for Children&rsquo… Read full post »

I posted this before, but modified it slightly and added Part 2. I had teachers and parents in mind while writing it, in addition to concerned citizens generally.

The so-called No Child Left Behind Act is the most idiotic piece of legislation to slap our kids and American education in… Read full post »

and why I encourage you to be a donor. This is a short story about how an anonymous heart donor saved my life.

I had always led a reasonably healthy life, exercising, skiing, rollerblading, hiking, biking, eating healthy foods, and very little “junk food.” I worked in elementary sch… Read full post »

Open Letter to NEA Leadership & Attorney Michael Simpson

Rather than continue a dog and pony show (as in the comment section here: http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=120677), I wish to give readers, especially teachers, a chance to make up their own mind regarding the NEA aband… Read full post »