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This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows billowing smoke from a powerful explosion that shook Damascus in the central Marjeh district of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, April. 30, 2013. State TV said the explosion caused casualties. The blast comes a day after the Syrian Prime Minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt a heavily protected area of Damascus. (AP Photo/SANA)

Opinion: Syria cannot be another Iraq

By Nicholas Pierce
April 30, 2013
FILE - In this Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo provided by Ben Thorndike, people react to an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston. Since Monday, Boston has experienced five days of fear, beginning with the marathon bombing attack, an intense manhunt and much uncertainty ending in the death of one suspect and the capture of the other. (AP Photo/Ben Thorndike, File)

Opinion: Recent tragedies difficult to understand

By Nicholas Pierce
April 21, 2013

Opinion: Rep. Edwards gives hope for Democrats in Louisiana

By Nicholas Pierce
February 24, 2013
FILE - In this July 31, 2006 file photo, members of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) are seen as their leader Joseph Kony meets with a delegation of Ugandan officials and lawmakers and representatives from non-governmental organizations, in the Democratic Republic of Congo near the Sudanese border. The LRA Crisis Tracker group which tracks the Joseph Kony-led LRA said in a report released Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 that the LRA killed 51 civilians across Central Africa in 2012, a huge drop in the number killed from two years previous. (AP Photo, File)

Opinion: Obama admin. should stop funding child slavery

By Nicholas Pierce
February 19, 2013
Pope Benedict XVI arrives in St. Peter's Basilica on the occasion of the celebration of Ash Wednesday mass at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a solemn period of 40 days of prayer and self-denial leading up to Easter. Pope Benedict XVI told thousands of faithful Wednesday that he was resigning for "the good of the church", an extraordinary scene of a pope explaining himself to his flock that unfolded in his first appearance since dropping the bombshell announcement. (AP Photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Pool)

Opinion: Pope’s resignation creates opportunities for the Catholic Church

By Nicholas Pierce
February 13, 2013

Opinion: Future of American church unclear

By Nicholas Pierce
February 3, 2013
Chris Scheuerman and his former wife, Anne, reminisce in 2007 about their son Jason, who committed suicide while serving in Iraq.

Opinion: Military suicides at crisis level

By Nicholas Pierce
January 17, 2013
U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wave as they arrive at Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, on Air Force One, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. This is the first visit to Myanmar by a sitting U.S. president. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Opinion: Global change and national stagnation mark 2012 politics

By Nicholas Pierce
December 2, 2012
Hydraulic fracturing extracts oil and natural gas by forcing chemicals into shale rock or derelict wellbores. This process pushes the assets to the ground’s surface.

Opinion: Louisiana oil fracking could support the University, decrease tuition

By Nicholas Pierce
November 28, 2012

Blue-Eyed Devil: Should contraception be internationally recognized as a basic human right?

By Nicholas Pierce
November 19, 2012

South’s secession petitions are asinine, racist

By Nicholas Pierce
November 15, 2012
People ride atop a vehicle waving a Puerto Rican flag during elections in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Puerto Ricans are electing a governor as the U.S. island territory does not get a vote in the U.S. presidential election. But they are also casting ballots in a referendum that asks voters if they want to change the relationship to the United States. A second question gives voters three alternatives: become the 51st U.S. state, independence, or sovereign free association, a designation that would give more autonomy. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Blued-Eyed Devil: Should Puerto Rico be admitted as the 51st U.S. state?

By Nicholas Pierce
November 13, 2012
President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at Cheyenne Sports Complex in Las Vegas, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Don’t support the lesser of two evils: Barack Obama

By Nicholas Pierce
November 4, 2012
University missteps with airbrush incident

University missteps with airbrush incident

By Nicholas Pierce
October 23, 2012

Nonreligion does not pose a threat to faith

By Nicholas Pierce
October 15, 2012

NATO, U.N. may soon pay for inaction in Syria

By Nicholas Pierce
October 9, 2012

Reverend Louis Farrakhan and the death of a Nation

By Nicholas Pierce
October 4, 2012
This Sept. 5, 2012 photo released by Harvard University shows a fourth century fragment of papyrus that divinity professor Karen L. King says is the only existing ancient text that quotes Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife. King, an expert in the history of Christianity, says the text contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he identified as Mary. King says the fragment of Coptic script is a copy of a gospel, probably written in Greek in the second century. (AP Photo/Harvard University, Karen L. King)

Blue-Eyed Devil: The married Messiah: Was He married, does it matter?

By Nicholas Pierce
September 24, 2012

Blue-Eyed Devil: Patience, understanding the antidote for hate

By Nicholas Pierce
September 19, 2012
Libyan military guards check one of the U.S. Consulate's burnt out buildings during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif, not shown, to the U.S. Consulate to express sympathy for the death of the American ambassador, Chris Stevens and his colleagues in the deadly attack on the Consulate last Tuesday, September 11, in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. The American ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed when a mob of protesters and gunmen overwhelmed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, setting fire to it. Ambassador Chris Stevens, 52, died as he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff as a crowd of hundreds attacked the consulate Tuesday evening, many of them firing machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The Arabic on the building reads, "God is Great, and there is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger." (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Blue-Eyed Devil: Chaos surrounding U.S. ambassador’s death is a victory for extremists of every stripe

By Nicholas Pierce
September 13, 2012

Blue-eyed Devil: Religious intolerance rampant in Republican camp

By Nicholas Pierce
January 24, 2012