by John D. Pierce | Feb 26, 2009 | Opinion
Yesterday my wife paid a physical therapy visit to a local nursing home. An elderly man with a cane wobbled his way down the hall.One of the employees saw him and was alarmed. “Oh Honey, did you fall?” she asked.My wife looked and saw the woman examining...
by Cliff Vaughn | Feb 26, 2009 | Opinion
EthicsDaily.com launched a new version of its Web site Feb. 4. Those of us on staff are enjoying the upgrades, and we hope you are, too. Refining the site’s design and interface is a process, not a destination, but as you read and play around with the site, consider...
by Ed Hogan | Feb 26, 2009 | Opinion
We all run current events through filters. Take the economy. When we heard of a recession on both coasts, we Texans barely raised an eyebrow. Our economy was robust and diverse. When the market crashed and the recession hit our state, we began paying attention. As a...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 26, 2009 | Opinion
Southern Baptist editor Kelly Boggs’ recent column in Baptist Press reveals why white conservative Christians are not taken seriously in needed discussions about race. The editor of the Louisiana Baptist Convention newspaper, Baptist Message, addressed the...
by Robert Parham | Feb 25, 2009 | Opinion
President Barack Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress stood light-years apart from President George Bush’s 2005 State of the Union address. Flushed with confidence from his re-election, Bush began, Tonight, with a healthy, growing economy,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 25, 2009 | Opinion
We occasionally run across an expression such as “growing by degrees” or even “learning by degrees.” Lately, I’ve been getting e-mails from a scam outfit that urge me to “buy degrees.” I suspect I’m not alone.The email...
