by Brian Kaylor | Mar 23, 2006 | Opinion
In January the American Dialect Society selected its 2005 Word of the Year: “truthiness.” The ADS, founded in 1889 to study the English language and its development, is made up of linguists, lexicographers, etymologists, historians, grammarians, academics,...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 22, 2006 | Opinion
We all heard of Abu Ghraib, where prisoners were sadistically abused by U.S. military forces. We were told by our government that these abuses were an aberration conducted by a few rogue soldiers who have sullen the good name of all Americans. Regardless of the spin...
by Gary Farley | Mar 21, 2006 | Opinion
The primary topic at the Courthouse Grill in Carrollton, Ala., this past week has been the arrest of three young, urban college students for setting fires in nine rural Baptist churches in the Black Belt. Dancy First Baptist, which was badly damaged, is less than 25...
by Keith Herron | Mar 20, 2006 | Opinion
Dan Brown is on trial in a London court for “reworking” ideas from another source and presenting it as his own. The fictional material of his wildly popular novel, The Da Vinci Code, is apparently very similar to the nonfiction book, The Holy Blood and the...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 20, 2006 | Opinion
Number of years since the U.S. invaded Iraq: 3. Number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: 2,520. Number of those which were non-combat related: 552. Number of United Kingdom soldiers killed in Iraq (the next nation with the highest fatalities): 103. Number of U.S. women...
by Jan Turrentine | Mar 20, 2006 | Opinion
“It’s the most important job in the world, bar none, save that of parent,” says Ruth O’Quinn of Alexandria, La., who spent her entire career in public education. “Teaching is a calling, and most successful teachers are usually those who...
