by John D. Pierce | Mar 9, 2010 | Opinion
Shock. That was my response when a mid-February email from a former Baylor regent arrived with the news that well-known special prosecutor Kenneth Starr had been tapped as the next president of the university in Waco, Texas. Reading it a second time, it still appeared...
by William Yoder | Mar 8, 2010 | Opinion
Quakers are mentioned in Alexander Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” (1823). And Leo Tolstoy’s daughter-in-law, Olga Tolstaya-Voyekova (1858-1936), joined the Quakers in 1924. Quakers actually have a long history of involvement in Russia, and...
by Bruce Prescott | Mar 8, 2010 | Opinion
Soner Cagaptay, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy – a prestigious neo-conservative think tank with ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – has been publishing articles defaming Turkish Islamic philosopher and scholar...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 8, 2010 | Opinion
With our son off on a weekend snowboarding trip, Jan and I took advantage by spending Friday evening and Saturday galavanting about the Triangle, catching a couple of movies we’d wanted to see, and eating out at several establishments we’ve heard about but...
by Mark Johnson | Mar 7, 2010 | Opinion
Senate Bill 142 is making its way through the Kentucky legislature. More popularly known as the “Bible bill,” it follows the success of a Texas initiative to allow the teaching of the Bible as literature, with a special focus on tracing its influence in...
by James L. Evans | Mar 7, 2010 | Opinion
Anyone who has read this column even for a short period of time knows I am an ardent proponent of the separation of church and state. Not only am I convinced this is what the founders fully intended in the First Amendment of the Constitution, but I am also convinced...
