by Rodney Kennedy | Sep 9, 2009 | Opinion
“Lord, give me understanding.” I really try to understand people with whom I have serious ideological differences, but the recent news has left me in a funk and a state of confusion. Conservative parents flooded administrative offices of school systems...
by Robert Parham | Sep 8, 2009 | Opinion
In a full-throated attack on President Barack Obama’s forthcoming nationally televised speech to school children encouraging them to study hard, fundamentalist and Republican leaders smear the president with accusations of “indoctrination,”...
by Fred Guttman | Sep 7, 2009 | Opinion
The National Socialist Movement, or Nazi Party, held a meeting in Greensboro, N.C., on Aug. 29. We responded with an advertisement in the paper, placed an online petition and wore ribbons in our congregations that weekend. But now that the dust has settled, let us ask...
by Trey Lyon | Aug 28, 2009 | Opinion
“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George...
by Mark Johnson | Aug 24, 2009 | Opinion
One normal yellow bus with green-and-white trim, all scrubbed and sparkling, sits parked in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Nearby are a collection of more than 125 notable vehicles of the 20th century in America, including a string of presidential...
