KGH, glad you checked out that site. Thanks. I've done several op/ed pieces on their work and really do believe, "we, the people" can use the Internet to make a difference in politics.

Jed, some of us do NOT get any of our news from television soundbites...as a columnist, I research as many different ways as possible before forming an opinion, including what I consider the more unbiased reporting of NPR, BBC, and other world news organisations.

Kevin, I am just finishing up a book called "Price of Honor" by journalist Jan Goodwin, who spent four years living in Muslim countries, researching and interviewing women and men from all walks of life about the oppression of the fundamentalist Islam movements in all of the Middle East countries. Although it was published a few years ago, I know from other research I've done, that it is still fairly accurate. I have not read of any punishment there that would be as humane as being strapped to a gurney and having a needle inserted, in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere. The atrocities carried out for so-called justice, by the extremists who've taken over, are almost unspeakable.

kat