Columns for the Los Cabos Daily News (Mexico)
Note: JPEG copies of actual columns best viewed at www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/cabo.htm
March 17, 2007:
Long Live the Braceros:
Essential Guest Workers not Felons
PDF
March 26, 2007: The Need for Liberation Theology is Greater than ever PDF
April 10, 2007: Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles PDF
April 17, 2007: What Ever Happened to the Last Judgment? PDF
April 22, 2007: America's Moral Responsibility for Global Warming PDF
May 14, 2007: The Imam of Ait Kassem Serves Lunch PDF JPEG
May 16, 2007: Catholics May Have Good Reason for Abortion Reform PDF JPEG
June 4, 2007:
Chilling Parallels between Christian and Islamic
Fundamentalists
PDF
JPEG
June 8, 2007:
Christ is Commander-in-Chief: Relative Violence in
Islam and Christianity
PDF
JPEG
June 15, 2007: God is Dead (Again!): Secular Fundamentalists Fight Back PDF JPEG
June 20, 2007: The Global Peace Index: Norway #1; USA #96 JPEG PDF
June 26, 2007: King of Morocco Takes His Country in a New Direction JPEG PDF
July 5, 2007: Senator Sam Brownback is Confused about Evolution JPEG PDF
July 12, 2007: America's Health Care is a National Disgrace Part 1 PDF
July 20, 2007: The Overuse and Abuse of Part-Time Faculty PDF JPEG
August 2, 2007: Anti-Intellectualism and America's Future PDF
August 11, 2007: We Are All Liberals: Well, Almost All PDF JPEG
August 17, 2007: Muslim Democrats and Republicans Have Ignorant Idaho Detractors PDF JPEG
August 25, 2007: Soles Hundreds of Feet Thick: Visualizing Economic Inequality in America PDF JPEG
August 30, 2007: Faulty Historical Parallels: Bush, Once Again, Draws the Wrong Lessons PDF
September 6, 2007: Lost in a World of Red and Green: Colorblind Males as Neglected Minority PDF
September 13, 2007: Here's to Good Royalty: A Defense of Constitutional Monarchy PDF
September 20, 2007: IKEA: The Progressive Big Box Store from Sweden PDF
September 27, 2007: Celebrating our Muslim Neighbors by Acknowledging Their Cultural Heritage PDF
October 10, 2007: A Denmark Retrospective: Fond Memories for Me and 41 Years of Socio-Economic Progress for the Danes PDF JPEG
October 17, 2007: Six Year On: Little Progress in Afghanistan
October 25, 2007: The 454th Anniversary of the Burning of Michael Servetus PDF
November 1, 2007: What Part of Equality Don't You Understand?
November 8, 2007: The Failure of Abstinence-Only Sex Education PDF JPEG
November 15, 2007: Benazir Bhutto Returns Home to Cheers and Bombs PDF
November 22, 2007: Face to Black Face with King Tut PDF
November 29: India's Day of Infamy: The Destruction of the Babri Mosque PDF
December 6, 2007: A Sad Chronicle of Complicity: Buddhism and Japanese Nationalism
December 14: Strange Bedfellows: Libertarians, Christians, and Biblical Bolsheviks JPEG
December 19, 2008: Buddha, Jesus, and Gandhi: The Preachers of the Gospel of Weak Belief (PDF)
December 27, 2007: The Christmas Story and Other Redeeming Myths (PDF)
January 3, 2008: Pontius the Pilot and the Flight to Egypt PDF
January 19, 2008: The Gay Man Who Organized the 1963 March on Washington PDF
January 24, 2008: The Tribulations of Providing and Obtaining a Legal Abortion PDF
February 1, 2008: Benjamin Franklin and Religious Liberalism PDF
February 7, 2008: Indonesia: Rich Hindu Past and Moderate Muslim Future
February 12, 2008: Mexican Wal-Mart Workers Win Their Strike
February 21, 2008: Two Presidents George and the Golden Rule PDF
March 5, 2008: "Don't Tread on Me": Americans Rise Up Against Alien Invaders
March 12, 2008: Progress in Iraq is only Temporary or Illusory JPEG
March 19, 2008: Tibetans Struggle in Dealing with an Orwellian Government PDF
March 26, 2008: Olympia Brown: Leading Suffragette and First Ordained Woman Minister PDF
April 2, 2008: On the Importance of Three Cups of Tea PDF
April 9, 2008: The Meandering Maverick: No Straight Talk from McCain on Religion PDF
April 16, 2008: One Haitian Woman's Struggle to Save Her People and Her Land PDF
April 23, 2008: Rapa Nui: Case Study in Ecological Disaster PDF
April 30, 2008: Graduate Teaching Assistants: Exploited Labor on America's Campuses PDF
May 7, 2008: The Doctrine of Discovery and the Christian Conquest of the World PDF
May 14, 2008: Good Manners, Civility, and Diplomacy PDF
May 21, 2008: Dear President White: You Owe Us Another Five Years PDF
May 28, 2008: Sandpoint Nurses May Lead Idaho Unions in a New Direction PDF
June 4, 2008: Two Himalayan Kingdoms Decide on Their Kings PDF
June 11, 2008: The U. S. Starts Killings Its Own Again PDF
June 18, 2008: Our Troops Deserve Better When They Come Home PDF
June 25, 2008: Detainees Are People Too: The Supreme Court Upholds the Magna Carta PDF
July 2, 2008: Let's Not Forget the Ladies of the American Revolution PDF
July 9, 2008: Denmark Leads the World in Wind Power PDF
July 16, 2008: Warning to the GOP: Don't Mess with Medicare PDF
July 23, 2006: "Happy Hour" Is Not What Aristotle Had in Mind PDF
July 30, 2008: The Lake Woebegon Blues: Where Can I buy a Good Green Car? PDF
August 7, 2008: Barack Obama is Right about the Surge PDF
August 15, 2008: Headscarves, Secularism, and Religious Freedom PDF
August 27, 2008: Please Register Here to Protest, but We Might Arrest You if You Do PDF
September 5, 2008: Restoring Democracy in the American Workplace PDF
September 12, 2008: Obama's Health Plan is Working in the Bay State; McCain's would be a Disaster PDF
September 19, 2008: McCain's Pit Bull Is Waging Cultural War on America PDF
September 24, 2008: Will Sarah Palin Go the Way of Spiro Agnew? Troopergate May Speed Her Departure