by Robert Parham | May 2, 2007 | Opinion
Money, sex and power have a moral toxicity when mixed and misused. All three components have contaminated the ethos at the World Bank, the institution intended to help the poor, reduce global poverty and raise the standard of living. The World Bank president, who came...
by Robert Parham | Apr 30, 2007 | Opinion
Goodwill is an energetic, positive word. It’s a proactively muscular word. It contains enough self-definition that further commentary is unnecessary in casual conversation. Let’s start describing ourselves as the goodwill Baptists. Let’s drop the...
by Robert Parham | Apr 27, 2007 | Opinion
Eight Democratic presidential candidates mostly skipped the issue of faith in their party’s first national televised debate, a remarkable shift after the manic activity of national Democrats following recent elections to prove that they, too, were people of...
by Robert Parham | Apr 25, 2007 | Opinion
What are the results of President Bush’s surge of more American troops into Iraq, beginning Feb. 1, 2007? Here’s a snapshot of a few of the news reports from Monday and Tuesday: 9 U.S. soldiers were killed and 20 were wounded in a suicide bombing at a...
by Robert Parham | Apr 16, 2007 | Opinion
Dick Cheney made more than twice what George Bush did in 2006 and gave half as much as a percentage of income to charity as his boss. President Bush and his wife, Laura, gave over 12 percent to charity, according to information the White House released on Friday about...
