For The First Time In Our History,

There Is A Historic Strain Of Dominion Theology Which Says, Taking Its References From The Psalms, That Man Is Made Just A Little Lower Than God, And That We Are The Crown Of Creation. That Interpretation Has Come At The Expense Of The One That Says When God, In The Story Of Noah, Intervened To Save Human Life Against The Flood, Against The Acts Of Nature, He Did Not Stop With Human Beings. He Made Sure That Every Kind Of Animal Was Represented Twice On That Ark.

Why Is The Country Not Having This Conversation, The Kind Of Conversation That Requires The Politicians Who Are Responsible For The War To Be Specific To The Concerns Of The American People.

I Report The Assault On Nature Evidenced In Coal Mining That Tears The Tops Off Mountains And Dumps Them Into Rivers, Sacrificing The Health And Lives Of Those In The River Valleys To Short-term Profit, And I See A Link Between That Process And The Stock-market Frenzy Which Scorns Long-term Investments-genuine Savings-in Favor Of Quick Turnovers And Speculative Bubbles Whose Inevitable Bursting Leaves Insiders With Stuffed Pockets And Millions Of Small Stockholders, Pensioners, And Employees Out Of Work, Out Of Luck, And Out Of Hope.

On The Eve Of The Election Last Month My Wife Judith And I Were Driving Home Late In The Afternoon And Turned On The Radio For The Traffic And Weather. What We Instantly Got Was A Freak Show Of Political Pornography: Lies, Distortions, And Half-truths - Half-truths Being Perhaps The Blackest Of All Lies. They Paraded Before Us As Informed Opinion.

I Believe Democracy Requires A 'sacred Contract' Between Journalists And Those Who Put Their Trust In Us To Tell Them What We Can About How The World Really Works.