BY SHARON MARTIN Because he died in Europe in World War II, my uncle, Lawrence Edge, has a bridge in Atoka County named for him....

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange’s head. Jonah Goldberg, contributor to the National Review, asks in his syndicated column, “Why wasn’t Assange garroted in his hotel room years ago?” Sarah Palin wants him hunted down and brought to justice, saying: “He is an anti-American […]

BY FROMA HARROP We always talk about “The American Dream” – about living it, saving it, wondering what happened to it. Few bother to define it. The stereotype shows a single-family house, with white-picket fence, Mom and Dad, Dick and Jane. A mansion rarely comes to mind, unless obtained by someone born in grinding poverty. […]

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD This writer well recalls a long airplane ride from Oklahoma City to Washington, seated beside Father Peter Green, president of St....

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Tom DeLay, a once-upon-a-time Republican powerhouse, has accumulated an unusual assortment of nicknames in his professional life. As a Texas legislator in the 1980s, he was known as “Hot Tub Tommy,” a do-nothing member who preferred partying to lawmaking. When he went to Congress, however, he was a man on a mission. […]