by Britt Towery | Mar 14, 2006 | Opinion
The first time I wrote a letter to a sitting American president was when I lived in Taiwan. I have no idea now what prompted me to write President Johnson. But the reply I got was from his press secretary, Bill Moyers. That reply may have been a standard letter sent...
by Britt Towery | Feb 28, 2006 | Opinion
The money-rich capitalists at MSN.com, and Yahoo, Inc., and the young millionaires at Google never let freedom of speech or “do what’s right” interfere with making more money. Google’s decision to launch a censored version of its search engine...
by Britt Towery | Feb 27, 2006 | Opinion
Up until four years ago the lands of Iraq and Iran would have been hard for many Americans to find on a world map. We knew next to nothing about their history, language and culture. We only knew they had a dictator of the worst kind. The British and French following...
by Britt Towery | Feb 17, 2006 | Opinion
The news of the death Feb. 3 of Dr. Han Wenzao in Nanjing, China, caught my wife and me by surprise. Jody put her hand to her mouth, for it was like losing a member of the family. We paused to pray for his wife, Zhuo Zhaohua, who was by his side for six decades. Han...
by Britt Towery | Jan 30, 2006 | Opinion
The Chinese began to celebrate the Year of the Dog on Sunday, Jan. 29. It is the 11th symbolic animal of Twelve Terrestrial Branches that make up the cycle of a normal life on earth. Anytime we live past 60 is gravy–“living on borrowed time,” as...
