by Robert Parham | Apr 25, 2010 | Opinion
The U.S. Army made the right decision to prohibit Franklin Graham from speaking at a prayer event scheduled in May at the Pentagon, an event organized by a group of mostly Christian Right leaders of which Graham is the honorary chair. The prohibition resulted from...
by Robert Parham | Apr 20, 2010 | Opinion
During one of the flash points of the national debate over health-care reform, I observed a conservative moral leader ask a flight attendant for a seatbelt extension. “Good grief,” I thought to myself. Regrettably, he shepherds a flock that suffers...
by Robert Parham | Apr 14, 2010 | Opinion
The Weather Channel reported that during the first week of April more than 1,800 daily record highs in the United States were tied or broken. The article was an update from an earlier piece titled “July or April? Spring Skipped?” The Weather...
by Robert Parham | Apr 12, 2010 | Opinion
Pro-tax millionaires are pushing back against the anti-tax crowd, some of whom want to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, others of whom squawk about flat taxes or fair taxes, and all of whom worship the myth that tax cuts for the wealthy grow the economy. USA...
by Robert Parham | Apr 6, 2010 | Opinion
When David Morgan and his residents crowded into my room on an early morning five years ago this week, I announced that I was ready to go home. A day or so earlier, he had said or nodded or done something that had given me the impression of an imminent release from...