by Larry Greenfield | Dec 4, 2009 | Opinion
A friend remarked the other day that 90 percent of the American population couldn’t hear anything someone said to them. It was an unscientific and unsubstantiated observation. To be sure, it had little to do with the physical loss of hearing. The best estimates...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 3, 2009 | Opinion
So many people brought so much stuff to Odell and Johnnie Riddle’s home that their garage kept overflowing. Now they gather, sort and share clothes, furniture and other items out of a warehouse in downtown Dalton, Ga.Their destination is Appalachia — and the...
by Ed Hogan | Dec 3, 2009 | Opinion
One of the reasons I wanted to move to Houston 12 years ago was the city’s multiracial environment. I wanted my children to grow up to be world citizens, not just middle-class Anglos from the Deep South. I love my city. You can get empanadas from Columbians and...
by Mark Woods | Dec 3, 2009 | Opinion
It will come as a surprise to legislators in the United Kingdom to realize that protections afforded to India’s Dalit people, formerly known as “untouchables,” are not applicable in the U.K. Discrimination on the grounds of the caste system, which is...
by Keith Herron | Dec 3, 2009 | Opinion
Out of the vast throngs of the people of faith in our Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, Hannah, the mother of Samuel, stands out as a model for spiritual wishfulness. The ancient rabbis described her as the composer of the first prayer. The rabbis of the Talmud cited...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 2, 2009 | Opinion
War.I hate it. Always have, always will. Yet, for most of recorded history, war has been with us, and it doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon. On Tuesday night President Obama announced that his strategy for trying to conclude at least one of the wars he...
