BY DAVID PERRYMAN Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat. Time to put a penny in the old man’s hat. If you haven’t...

BY JOE CONASON Spreading holiday cheer, a Western tradition for hundreds of years, no longer engages our so-called conservatives as the end of the year approaches. In fact, the innocent phrase “happy holidays” only infuriates them. The new Yuletide ritual exciting the right is the “War on Christmas” – an annual opportunity to spread religious […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH “Don’t be deceived,” Duck Commander and A&E reality television star Phil Robertson insisted, when asked to define what he considered to be sinful behavior. “Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers – they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t […]

BY FROMA HARROP This week, a guard insisted on looking into my handbag as I entered Radio City Music Hall to see the Christmas Spectacular. He had absolutely no reason to suspect me or the hundreds of other patrons whose bags he similarly inspected of carrying guns or explosives. But none of us objected to […]

BY KAREN WEBB I spent several years on the board of the Oklahoma ACLU and I defended the rights of some pretty disgusting people and...