by Robert Parham | Jun 21, 2005 | Opinion
Following the release of Terri Schiavo’s autopsy that found that she had irreversible brain damage and was blind, Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) denied that he had ever diagnosed her. “I never made a diagnosis,” he said last week on the...
by Robert Parham | Jun 20, 2005 | Opinion
The Southern Baptist Convention is transitioning from the far right to the further right. Fifteen years after fundamentalist leaders wrestled denominational control from Southern Baptist moderates and created a new power structure, they find themselves being yanked...
by Robert Parham | Jun 17, 2005 | Opinion
My Father’s Day came early this year with one of my best gifts ever. The day began like the previous one, and the one before that, and the one before that one, stretching back for weeks. The nurse checked my vital signs and drew blood before daybreak. She gave...
by Robert Parham | Jun 16, 2005 | Opinion
Two examples of corruption in Washington surfaced in June, illustrating the shameless determination of political leaders to serve corporate interests over the public good, and neither involved the ethically challenged Tom Delay, majority leader of the House of...
by Robert Parham | Jun 14, 2005 | Opinion
Biafra. Rwanda. Darfur. A wide-eyed older man ran into my morning spelling class at Hillcrest School in Jos, Nigeria, one day in 1966. Sweating profusely, he asked for protection. Our teacher took him to the principal’s office. He was clubbed to death the next...
