by Robert Parham | May 24, 2011 | Opinion
Three outspoken Americans recently fed the storyline that charity is the solution to solving social problems. When Catholic scholars charged that House Speaker John Boehner’s social service budget cuts were at odds with the Catholic Church’s moral...
by Robert Parham | May 17, 2011 | Opinion
Texas has been burning. Memphis has flooded. Tuscaloosa has been cleaning up after a tornado with 190-mile-per-hour winds smashed through Alabama. Kentucky has been drying out from almost one foot more rain in April than normal. And evangelical preachers are in...
by Robert Parham | May 8, 2011 | Opinion
What is the morally right term to use for undocumented immigrants? Fox News favors the word “illegals” in its headlines. Recent headlines read: “Confirmed: Feds Ordered Not to Arrest Illegals Coming from Mexico” and “Securing America:...
by Robert Parham | May 1, 2011 | Opinion
Evangelist Franklin Graham blessed a Donald Trump presidential candidacy on Easter Sunday morning but has yet to criticize Trump for his F-bomb outburst in Las Vegas a few days later. During a nine-minute interview on ABC, TV journalist Christiane Amanpour asked...
by Robert Parham | Apr 28, 2011 | Opinion
Fabricate facts. Testify to threats. Take a stand against problems that don’t exist. That’s the three-step tango to introducing bills in state legislatures. Take Texas state Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler), who introduced a bill to ban Shariah law from use in...
