by Mark Johnson | Aug 24, 2009 | Opinion
One normal yellow bus with green-and-white trim, all scrubbed and sparkling, sits parked in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Nearby are a collection of more than 125 notable vehicles of the 20th century in America, including a string of presidential...
by Trey Lyon | Aug 24, 2009 | Opinion
My friend and I were driving when we saw a field covered in kudzu – “the vine that ate the South.” Without warning he said suddenly, “Kudzu! It’s amazing the power of the non-native species.” Taken aback by his highly technical...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 22, 2009 | Opinion
When not reporting an accident or construction slowdown, the overhead interstate signs in Georgia often give this message in yellow-lighted block letters:REAL-TIME TRAVEL INFOCALL 511ANYWHERE IN GEORGIAMy witty 11-year old mentally moved the hyphen and joked:...
by Robert Parham | Aug 21, 2009 | Opinion
A deacon from a prominent Baptist church in the Nashville area entered my hospital room one evening in March 2005. Wearing a mask, gloves and a gown, he said he wanted to pray for me. I had acute leukemia. I had had rounds of chemo, a morphine drip, a cocktail of...
by Linda Brinson | Aug 21, 2009 | Opinion
It was Sarah Palin who got the most attention for the false assertion that the health-care reform bill being debated in Congress would create “death panels” to encourage euthanasia of the elderly and infirm, but it apparently was a stalwart of the...
by James L. Evans | Aug 21, 2009 | Opinion
We seem to have arrived at the end of sanity. Fear, anger and raw political manipulation have become the new world disorder – at least in America. Members of Congress trying to hold town hall meetings on health care reform are being shouted down by angry mobs of...
