“There’s a feeling that if this can happen, anything can happen,” said the opposition leader Halifah Sallah, the minority leader in Parliament from 2002 to 2007, who has himself been arrested four times, most recently for speaking out against the witch hunts.
Are there still witch hunts in the world? I mean real witch hunts–hunting for witches to root out evil in our midst. Apparently so. According to the New York Times, the President of Gambia has sent out men in red tunics to all the villages searching for witches. An unknown … Continue reading
On May 18, 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.
School is almost out and we are starting to think about summer here. One of the most important things for me is that my son keeps reading over the summer, and until this year, he hasn’t really been much of a reader. I’ve already told him that once school is … Continue reading
