by Colin Harris | Dec 14, 2010 | Opinion
President Obama’s “tax deal” of recent days has produced a significant response. Republicans have expressed smug delight that he has “finally decided to work with them,” as they chuckle at their success in adding another score to their...
by Ircel Harrison | Dec 14, 2010 | Opinion
The Christian faith has been marked by conflicts between reform movements and the establishment from the very beginning. (Consider Paul and the Judaizers.) Without a doubt, the Spirit of God tends to move in unusual and often chaotic ways. For the most part, reform...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 13, 2010 | Opinion
Perhaps you’ve heard the term “flash mob.” It’s what happens when a group of people, often through communications on a social media website, gather in a public place and perform some sort of unusual or unexpected act for a short time, then they...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Dec 13, 2010 | Opinion
Not only outer space, but our inner spaces too, are being militarized. On the first day of its launch last month, the computer game “Call of Duty: Black Ops” sold 3.6 million copies and fetched more than $360 million in the U.S., Canada and Britain alone....
by William Brackney | Dec 13, 2010 | Opinion
Thanks to the era of instant information retrieval, Americans and the Western alliance have a huge problem: silencing Julian Assange as he brings to light 250,000 sensitive documents regarding national security. Shock, embarrassment, disappointment and no small amount...
by Wendell Griffen | Dec 13, 2010 | Opinion
Religious leaders and congregations are strangely silent while a fierce debate is occurring about whether to allow reductions in tax rates to expire that were enacted in 2001 and 2003 at the behest of then President George W. Bush. The debate over extending the...
