Bush Uses ‘Weapon’ Words to Make Case Against Iraq

President Bush used the word “weapons” several dozen times last night to make the case for possible military action against Iraq. His speech in Cincinnati came one year after Bush ordered the first military strikes in Afghanistan. The roughly 3,300-word...

Remember Sept. 15, 1963

Many have chronicled or memorialized the event and the four girls who lost their lives: 14-year-olds Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins, and 11-year-old Denise McNair.   Birmingham News reporter Frank Sikora wrote a book. Spike Lee produced a...

“My Big Fat Greek Wedding”

Movie executives and industry commentators are of course calling “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” the “surprise hit” of the summer. That’s accurate but distressing, for we shouldn’t be surprised that an actual story well-told on film will...