Miguel A. Guanipa

The Birds, the Bees, and Aliza Shvarts

One day, perhaps not unlike today, Aliza Shvarts woke up and had an epiphany; she had finally settled on a theme for her Senior Year art project.

The Project

The folks at NEST (New and Emerging Science and Technology) must have been in God’s mind when He confounded the language of Babel’s over-ambitious citizens, as they tried to build a tower that would reach up to his very abode.

Lessons from the Father

Jesus, the master story teller, once told the story of the younger of two sons, who asks his father to give him the full disbursement amount of whatever inheritance he had coming to him, as he wished to leave and find his way in the world.

Obama’s Achilles’ Heel

When Obama last exposed his Achilles’ heel, it happened inadvertently and without warning, amidst a fawning crowd of regulars upon whom a mighty spell had fallen.

Jihadists and Progressives: An Affair to Remember

General Douglas Macarthur once quipped that it was “...fatal to enter any war without the will to win it”.

Only a Dream

I remember waking up that morning, the full breadth of deep emotions evoked by a dream that had just ended, still aflame in my bosom.

The Bizarre Activism of Kurt Daims

One look at Mr. Kurt Daims and it is not unreasonable to assume that he is a militant devotee of his homeland’s progressive jihad.

Global Warming: The Coming Skeptic’s Revival

The recent U.S. Senate committee report listing 400 scientists who last year openly disputed Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming claims does indeed appear to yield a consensus.

Hillary, Bonhoeffer, and the Meaning of Truth

On his seminal work on Ethics the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that “it is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to tell a lie.

The End of a Debate

It is hard to envision anything other than the current dual-party template configuring this country’s political landscape anytime in the foreseeable future. For all intents and purposes, the Democratic and Republican parties are here to stay. And save for the few nominal party members who on occasion stray from their presumed ideological bearings, each party is correspondingly beholden – admittedly in somewhat reductive yet not wholly inaccurate characterizations - to its respective ideology; namely the liberal (benignly dubbed “progressive”) and the conservative ideologies.

The Curiously Discreet Candidate

It would appear that the 2008 presidential elections will most likely hinge not on the stances candidates have assured their voters they have publicly taken on any given issue, but on the stances voters hope their candidates are already sworn to in secret. The correct assumption is that wise candidates understandably avoid revealing their most deeply held convictions to the general public, lest they become vulnerable to a barrage of tailored made smear tactics from the dominant fringe on either side of the political aisle, and are effectively rendered unelectable.

On Faith

There are things in life we are incapable of comprehending in practice as they seem obstinately intent on dwelling in the province of theory. And some things can only be properly understood when they finally find their home in the bosom of practice. Such is the nature of Faith.

IMUS, Take II

I confess; I typically ranked as more than an irregular listener of the Imus morning program. My sensitivity meter was calibrated in such a way that when I listened to him, the needle typically hovered between the "mildly annoying-yet funny" and the "gratuitously shocking but hilarious" markers.

God and Nancy Pelosi

In the delightful, yet heart-rending film Life is Beautiful, director Roberto Benigni--who also plays the leading role--is being discipled by an old friend on the high calling of a being a waiter. "God serves men, but he is not the servant of men" instructs wisely the old sage.

A Cheerleader of Hopelessness

Reading Richard Dawkins' comments about the underreported plight of nonbelievers in the U.S. gives one the impression that America is a country where drinking fountains for "Atheists Only" and draconian laws prohibiting them from exercising their freedoms of choice, speech, and "religion" (pardon the oxymoron) are practically the norm.