On Monday’s Radio Show…

• Should Christopher Columbus be remembered as a hero or despot? Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley, a Keetoowah Cherokee Indian descendant who is author of Living in Color: Embracing God’s Passion for Ethnic Diversity, discusses Columbus Day with Alan.

• Georgia bar owner Patrick Lanzo attempts to defend his controversial sign that uses the N-word to protest President Obama.

• Time Out! Alan weighs in on the furor surrounding Rush Limbaugh’s efforts to buy the St. Louis Rams.…

Hillary Clinton On Whether She’ll Ever Run For President Again: No

Speaking to the Today Show’s Ann Curry, Hillary Clinton slammed the door on another run for the White House.

…Ann Curry asked if Clinton ever wishes she, rather than Barack Obama, was setting U.S. policy. “I have to tell you,” Clinton said, “it never crosses my mind.”

Curry followed up, “Will you ever run for president again?”

“No,” Clinton said.

“No?”

“No, no” Clinton insisted, laughing. “This is a great job. It is a 24-7 job. And I’m looking forward to retirement at some point.”…

Academic Says God Is Not The Creator

Old Testament scholar Ellen Van Wolde, of Radbaud University in the Netherlands,  says the first sentence of Genesis, “In the beginning God created heaven and earth,” has been mistranslated.

She claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis that suggests the writers of the great book never intended to suggest that God created the world — and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals.

She said she eventually concluded the Hebrew verb “bara”, which is used in the first sentence of the book of Genesis, does not mean “to create” but to …

Columbus Day: Time To Apologize To Native Americans?

Columbus discovered a new world…to him. But it wasn’t a new world to the Native Americans already here.  Now there is a Senate bill that offers Native Americans a formal apology.

“I am pleased that the Senate approved this important language,” bill sponsor U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla., said, adding he would work to ensure the language stays in the bill when it goes to conference committee. “Our nation has waited far too long to make this official apology to the native peoples in Oklahoma and the U.S.”

Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., the resolution’s Senate sponsor, said the measure …

Al Sharpton Seeks To Prevent Limbaugh From Buying NFL Team; Some Players Won’t Play

Al Sharpton has fired off a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell asking him to reject the effort by Rush Limbaugh to buy the St. Louis Rams.

In the letter, Sharpton tells Goodell, “Rush Limbaugh has been divisive and anti-NFL on several occasions with comments about NFL Players including Michael Vick and Donovan McNabb.”

In 2003, Limbaugh famously argued that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was getting special treatment in the press because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.

But in his letter, Sharpton brought up another Rush-centric controversy, adding that Rush’s “recent statement that …

Americans Least Happy In 50′s And Late 80′s

If you make it past 90, you’ll just get more blissful, according to a new Gallup poll, as Healed Planet reports.

Happiness drops among Americans in their 30s and 40s, and — in particular — among those in their 50s; it is higher among Americans in their 60s, drops among Americans in their late 70s and 80s, and then rises again among those older than 90. Men and women in most age groups have broadly equal happiness scores, with women scoring slightly higher than men in the middle-aged years, and notably higher after age 80.

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Conservatives In Accord With Chavez On Nobel Prize

Right-wing dart board Hugo Chavez of Venezuela says President Obama did nothing to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.  This puts him squarely in sync with American conservatives.  What amuses me about this is the number of times conservatives tried to make the case that liberals were somehow political soulmates of bin Laden.…

This Is What A Well-Run Protest Looks Like

But Barney Frank says he’d rather see activists lobbying elected officials than “putting pressure on the grass.”…

John McCain Says There Were “Clearly Tensions” With Sarah Palin

John McCain made light of it with John King, but didn’t deny it.

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Did Obama Go Far Enough To Move Gay Rights Forward?

President Obama said, “I’m here with you in that fight,” but as Joe at Americablog notes, Obama acknowledged that there are many who believe progress hasn’t come far enough.  He said he’d end “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”  But there was no timeline for change.

When we look back we’ll see a time when discrimination ended in the workplace and the battlefield. We’ll also see a time when same-sex couples are recognized as equal. I guess we can look back on January 19, 2017.

But at least Obama acknowledged the fight; at least he’s appointed many gays to his administration. …

Citizen Journalism At MetroJacksonville.com A Model For What’s To Come

With newspapers folding and many denizens in the old media not understanding the new media, the young entrepreneurs at metrojacksonville.com are on the edge of the curve.  Locals, including officials, can’t wait to post there, knowing their messages will be read by an engaged citizenry.  They are using the web the way it is meant to be used, incorporating a level of interactivity that most newspapers haven’t grabbed onto.

Among the issues that are paramount here is public transportation and sustainable and dynamic urban design towards a better life quality, energy efficiency and lower taxes.  They explore issues such as …