One year ago, using a brilliance you would have to go to the Alaska governor's mansion to equal, I predicted a Sacramento Kings/New York Knickerbockers championship. It took effort to produce such sparkling idiocy.

The term ecopsychology, first coined by writer and theorist Theodore Roszak in his 1992 book, Voice of the Earth, is loosely defined as the connection between ecology and human psychology.

ATLANTA - A three-judge federal panel ruled October 27, 2008, that Georgia should have sought approval from the U.S. Department of Justice before using Social Security and driver's license information to check the citizenship status of thousands of voters.

Amid the deepening global financial crisis that has triggered an economic downturn, the socially disadvantaged are suffering most. At the world's leading automaker, Toyota Motor Corporation is firing a large number of fixed-term employees.

Most working families have felt tough economic times for several years now, but economists have refused to designate these conditions as a recession. A perfect storm of severe economic data has made it harder to deny, however.

Major RV manufacturers all report a downturn in sales since the price of fuel started to skyrocket a few years ago. A typical RV weighs more and gets worse gas mileage than an 18-wheeler truck.

At a recent conference I was repeatedly asked about the prospects for a third Palestinian uprising, or Intifada. The question, although seemingly uncomplicated, is both loaded and important, and cannot be answered in a mere two minutes or less.