by Mike Parnell | Oct 14, 2011 | Opinion
Some movies are remakes; others are old ideas repackaged. What makes these films worth our dollars is not the genesis of the idea, but the execution and how they use the familiar to get us to join in and take the journey. “Real Steel” is not an original...
by Larry Greenfield | Oct 14, 2011 | Opinion
A friend reminded me awhile back that when the Pharisees were trying to trick Jesus in order to entrap him during that last week of his earthly life, he finessed their own entrapment. The question the Pharisees raised was simple: Is it, or is it not, lawful to pay...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 13, 2011 | Opinion
“Newspapers are dying” is the refrain in conversations about media health. And true, in the last few years some traditional newspapers have disappeared (RockyMountainNews), gone to online-only editions (SeattlePost-Intelligencer) or started offering home...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Oct 13, 2011 | Opinion
The new capitalist economic system established in the1980s and advocated by the Reagan administration is known as “neoliberalism” – “neo” because it is a new global movement since the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 13, 2011 | Opinion
The delegation to El Salvador from Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. caught a welcome break Wednesday, as we had only one dignitary to meet. We shopped at a collection of small craft shops for part of the morning, then drove to Resurrection Lutheran Church,...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 12, 2011 | Opinion
By John Pierce One distinct memory from my entry into home ownership in the early ‘80s is of visiting a building supply company in the Atlanta suburbs. There would be two guys in golf shirts sitting on stools behind a center counter. Because they catered to...
