by Mike Parnell | Jul 29, 2011 | Opinion
“Captain America: The First Avenger” tells the origin of the Marvel Comics icon of the American Way and stands as another chapter leading to the cinematic debut of the super team, “The Avengers.” We see young Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), a...
by Roy Fuller | Jul 29, 2011 | Opinion
This photo is like so many: an overview of a city from a vantage point on a hill at the edge of town. The city in this case is Oujda, Morocco. Located in the far east of the country, Oujda is far removed from the well-worn tourist destinations of Fes and Marrakesh....
by James L. Evans | Jul 29, 2011 | Opinion
Our world has many private and public interests. I should be able to go to the library and read any book I find there or own any book I buy at a bookstore. Those are private interests that no government or other entity should have the power to interfere with. On the...
by Colin Harris | Jul 28, 2011 | Opinion
It seems like it has been a long journey from Jim Crow to the Party of No, but one wonders if it has really been very far. There was a time when a good Baptist deacon would teach Sunday school the morning after wearing a white sheet on Saturday night to terrorize his...
by Bob Cornwall | Jul 28, 2011 | Opinion
The image of the frontier has always appealed to Americans. In part this is due to the sense of manifest destiny, the belief that America was the great vanguard of democracy and civilization. It was linked to the post-millennialism that was popular during the 19th...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 27, 2011 | Opinion
How can something already dead be dying? Easily enough, if you’re the Dead Sea. The plight of the Dead Sea has been known for years, but was recently highlghted by an article in Time Magazine. The Bible speaks of what we call the Dead Sea as the Salt Sea (KJV,...
