by Robert Parham | Jul 15, 2010 | Opinion
“The thought of increasing your jackpot potential, gets you pumped,” slurs Ric Flair in a noisy TV commercial. “Woooo!” Flair, who? “Woooo! That’s what I’m talking about,” bays Flair, who howls at the end of the...
by Robert Parham | Jul 12, 2010 | Opinion
A Georgia Baptist preacher filed a lawsuit last week with a gun rights group to ensure that church members can be armed in worship. Jonathan Wilkins, pastor of Thomaston’s Baptist Tabernacle, and GeorgiaCarry.org said in their suit that Wilkins needs a gun...
by Robert Parham | Jul 8, 2010 | Opinion
A month after the Nashville flood, family members and others called off the search for the final flood victim, a young man who had a tattoo of Jesus on his back. He was one of 30 Tennesseans killed when the rainstorm did not stop for two days and the water ran high...
by Robert Parham | Jul 5, 2010 | Opinion
Are biographical embellishments as certain as death and taxes? Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) recently said, “Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lost him when I was 11 because of that … and then to have them call me...
by Robert Parham | Jul 2, 2010 | Opinion
Before her benediction at the Baptist Center for Ethics luncheon last week in Charlotte, N.C., Babs Baugh gave me a compliment with a twinkle in her eye. She said, “It’s good to be friends with the person everybody wants to hang first.” Baugh, one...
