by Tony W. Cartledge | May 4, 2011 | Opinion
Yesterday, as American newspapers were glutted with continued coverage of Osama Bin Ladin’s death, most readers were completely unaware that May 3 was “World Press Freedom Day.” The observance was declared by the United Nations 20 years ago and...
by Bob Cornwall | May 4, 2011 | Opinion
Once upon a time it was a good thing to be liberal, but today it seems that to be a liberal is to be godless and unpatriotic. In this age of Limbaugh, Hannity and Coulter, the word has become so disrespected that many liberals run from the label and call themselves by...
by Wendell Griffen | May 4, 2011 | Opinion
The United States has spent well nigh a trillion dollars in a war against people in Iraq after having been misled – if not willfully deceived – into the war. What did your pastor say to your congregation about it? The United States spent almost a trillion dollars to...
by Jonathan Clark | May 4, 2011 | Opinion
Upon receiving word from President Obama that the world’s “most wanted” criminal had been killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan, revelers took to the streets in Washington D.C., New York City and on college campuses throughout the country. Waving flags,...
by Michael Ruffin | May 4, 2011 | Opinion
You’d think it would be so simple. You’d think that I would be able to look at a simple formula like “Osama bin Laden killed thousands of Americans + Now American forces have killed Osama bin Laden = Justice has been done” and feel good about...
by John D. Pierce | May 3, 2011 | Opinion
The Newseum in Washington, D.C. Photo by John Pierce.By John Pierce President Thomas Jefferson famously said: “…Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate...
