by Glen Stassen | Apr 19, 2004 | Opinion
It was a moving moment. In the 9-11 Commission hearing, former Counterterrorism Director Richard Clarke turned toward family members of those who had been killed and said: “Your government failed you…. And I failed you. And for that failure, I would ask…for your...
by Jan Turrentine | Apr 16, 2004 | Opinion
The college group in a conservative Southern church faced a dilemma. One of the young women in the group was unmarried and pregnant. The child’s father had denied his responsibility and refused to marry her. The young woman came from a family of modest means in...
by Robert Parham | Apr 16, 2004 | Opinion
How can President Bush redeem his stumbling performance at this week’s press conference? Holding only the third prime-time press conference of his presidency, Bush faced a room of confrontational journalists, who, as a pack, asked surprisingly pointed questions...
by Mike Parnell | Apr 15, 2004 | Opinion
Some children grow up with imaginary friends as part of the process of psychosocial development. But Frankie Maxon is different. She grew up with a personal god. “My Faith in Frankie” is a four-issue comics series by Vertigo Comics that looks at...
by Mike Parnell | Apr 13, 2004 | Opinion
Joel and Ethan Coen make iconoclastic movies. Theirs is a strange world inhabited by Bikers from Hell, dumb kids who become executives, and erudite convicts on mythic journeys. “The Ladykillers” is a remake of a classic British comedy about a group of...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Apr 13, 2004 | Opinion
Two weeks ago Johnson Controls, following a trend all too common throughout the United States, announced it was shutting down its operations in my small town of Holland, Mich., and moving to Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, where they can employ workers for $80.77 a week. Why...
