by Trudy Johnson | Jan 27, 2014 | Opinion
Sports are big business. Right now, advertisers are busy in all media markets promoting the Winter Olympics and the culmination of another season of our nation’s obsession with football: the Super Bowl. But marketers, media personalities, coaches, players and...
by Preston Clegg | Jan 27, 2014 | Opinion
In Arkansas, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is also a day to honor Robert E. Lee. How one day can hold that ironic juxtaposition of figures together I’ll never know. I assume someone thought the day was big enough for both of them. Both Lee and King cared...
by Robert Parham | Jan 24, 2014 | Opinion
Obama’s presidential wink at marijuana comes when his public opinion ratings are at all-time low and with a dreadful, glassy-eyed comparison to alcohol. A BBC News headline read: “Barack Obama: ‘Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol.'” After...
by Richard Wilson | Jan 24, 2014 | Opinion
I had the luxury of passing through Duala, Liberia, on a recent trip, but as a passenger instead of as the driver. Usually I am at the wheel with 12 to 15 passengers on the way to an appointment in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city, or by myself making a grocery run....
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 23, 2014 | Opinion
The church never had a better friend than Robert Stewart. Baptists, either, for that matter. Rev. Stewart, who succumbed to cancer on Jan. 20, began his life’s journey in a town with the delightful name of Walhalla, South Carolina, and he proceeded to spread...
by Rupen Das | Jan 23, 2014 | Opinion
Religious hostility is at an all-time high, according to the latest Pew Research Center report, noting that the number of countries where religious minorities are abused doubled between 2007 and 2012. Open Doors’ 2014 World Watch List identifies the top 50...
