by Virginia Signatories | Dec 1, 2009 | Opinion
Dear Governor-Elect Robert F. McDonnell: In response to the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, Rev. Pat Robertson asserted that Islam is “not a religion” but a “violent political system” and that those who practice it should be treated like...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 30, 2009 | Opinion
The fall vegetables in my small box garden are coming in, and at least one of them has taught me something new.The half-dozen broccoli plants I set out are gorgeous. I cut two heads the size of bridal bouquets last week, and gave one of them to a friend. I had never...
by Robert Parham | Nov 30, 2009 | Opinion
Humanists, atheists, Christian fundamentalists and cable talk-show hosts are again launching verbal grenades in the Christmas wars. Last year’s outbreak was so successful that the American Humanist Association (AHA) has launched another holiday campaign with...
by Bruce Prescott | Nov 30, 2009 | Opinion
There has been a wave of discussion on the Internet and over the airwaves about the Manhattan Declaration, which is yet another echo from the sound chambers of the radical Christian right. The signatories of the Manhattan Declaration are a who’s who of the...
by Sean McKenzie | Nov 30, 2009 | Opinion
A recent Harvard study estimates that 45,000 Americans die per year because they don’t have health insurance. Therefore, a health-care bill that allows 36 million uninsured to get some form of health coverage would likely save tens of thousands of American lives...
by John D. Pierce | Nov 28, 2009 | Opinion
Many of us have watched the evolution of shopping from downtown department stores to ever-expanding malls to shopping centers now designed to look and feel more like downtown shopping. It would take awhile to find, but somewhere there is a newspaper clipping with a...
