by Robert Parham | Mar 25, 2011 | Opinion
President Barack Obama has bypassed the time-honored rules of just war for a second time. The first time was when he announced in early December 2009 that he wanted more war in Afghanistan to end the war there. In Obama’s speech at the U.S. Military Academy...
by Robert Parham | Mar 23, 2011 | Opinion
Rejecting the idea of amnesty for America’s estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants, some advocates of comprehensive immigration reform insist that the undocumented must qualify for a pathway to citizenship. Such advocates style themselves as respecters of...
by Robert Parham | Mar 16, 2011 | Opinion
Japan’s horrific disaster swept the U.S. House of Representatives’ hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims off the public radar. Remember that only last Thursday, March 10, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chair of the House Homeland Security...
by Robert Parham | Mar 11, 2011 | Opinion
No sooner had a bipartisan group of U.S. senators put forth an “adult” plan to get the nation’s deficit under control through raising taxes and reducing the growth of entitlements than right-wing bloggers threw a temper-tantrum against taxation and...
by Robert Parham | Mar 7, 2011 | Opinion
Driving at night out of a predominantly low-income Hispanic neighborhood in Siler City, N.C., we were stopped at a police checkpoint. I asked one of the five Chatham County sheriffs what the problem was. He asked for my driver’s license and shined his...
