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WHY LIBERTY BENEFITS ALL
by Mark Scheel
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March 30, 2009 02:29 PM EDT -- A Review of Inclined to Liberty: The Futile Attempt to Suppress the Human Spirit by Louis E. Carabini (Ludwig von Mises Institute 2008). Written in the libertarian tradition of Hayek's . . . more
October 29, 2008 11:14 AM EDT -- The great question suspended above the heads of the electorate this season, most often only hinted at rather than spoken outright, is a simple yet profound one: after 219 years of history, are we as a . . . more
March 14, 2008 10:53 AM EDT -- "The little Kansas farm with the creek / beside the corn rows and a pasture hill / above the red barn was for me / both womb and cradle." So begins a poem of mine titled "August Night" . . . more
SAMHAIN
by Mark Scheel
views: 26 | rating: 10
March 14, 2008 10:40 AM EDT -- Pumpkins by corn shock, Straw-gold moon. Listen by door-- Small footsteps in night.     Published initially in The Kansas City Star . more
December 12, 2007 07:10 PM EST -- While traveling across Turkey last December with a group of ministers, guests of the Institute of Interfaith Dialog, I made the acquaintance of a Turkish civil engineer at a Fethullah Gulen school . . . more
December 12, 2007 05:50 PM EST --   No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. — Forty Hadiths of al-Nawawi 13                                                                                 . . . more
A TALE OF THREE TRADERS
by Mark Scheel
views: 9 | rating: 10 | comments: 2
May 16, 2007 01:12 PM EDT -- Some time back I attended one of those ubiquitous trading seminars offering yet another variation of software promising the “holy grail” to trading riches. Something about this particular . . . more
December 28, 2006 04:39 PM EST -- I've always been of a mixed mind about New Year's resolutions.  Ages ago, in another life, I quit smoking and drinking--and I undertook that in August.  Of course, that was . . . more
July 25, 2006 01:42 PM EDT -- A Review of By Design or by Chance? The Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Universe by Denyse O'Leary (Augsburg Books 2004). Reading Denyse O'Leary's By Design or by Chance . . . more
April 25, 2006 01:55 PM EDT -- Once there was, as a story goes, a dazzling skydiver. So possessed of skill and finesse was he, not to mention self-confidence, that his reputation spread far and wide. And as his reputation grew, so did . . . more
TETHERED BALLOONS
by Mark Scheel
views: 18 | rating: 10 | comments: 3
April 24, 2006 03:30 PM EDT -- How like we are-- afloat in lights and applause-- to tethered balloons of delicate skin stretched taut about empty space. Tied to the illusion of nights and days by threads of grace, we bob and . . . more
April 17, 2006 01:59 PM EDT -- He stoops to jet the red liquid into the cup with a deftness as polished as the silver urn strapped to his back, his gaiters and apron white in the sun, his gold-trimmed uniform and fez crimson as the . . . more
February 16, 2006 02:59 PM EST --              owing a debt to the word play of Lewis Carroll   "Tell me a story, Uncle John," beseeched little Mary Ann, . . . more
January 07, 2006 12:25 AM EST -- There's a costly, full-scale U.S. war ongoing of late--and I'm not referring to the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts. I mean the one right here within the Washington beltway between the opposition party . . . more
GOING TO VISIT ELLIE
by Mark Scheel
views: 10 | rating: 10 | comments: 2
January 06, 2006 12:05 PM EST -- The gray house stood silent in the late afternoon cool as errant rays of sunlight breached the canopy of elm branches and highlighted the bumper sticker, fixed beside the back screen door, which read: . . . more
ANGELS IN THE CITY
by Mark Scheel
views: 9 | rating: 7 | comments: 2
December 29, 2005 12:00 PM EST -- Inbox From: "Mark"<mark-schrib@hotmail.com> To: "Luther"<luke.doc@quikcom.net> Subject: JOHN'S PHONE CALL Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 14:12:33 -0700     Luke: . . . more
 
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