BY JIM HIGHTOWER Most of us celebrated July 4 by barbequing, doing a few 12-ounce elbow bends and setting off some fireworks. Some of us might have paused for a moment to reflect on that thing Jefferson wrote about 238 years ago: The Declaration of Independence. “We the People” are faced – right now – […]

BY FROMA HARROP On behalf of all liberals – living and dead – I’d like to apologize to Adam Bellow. In 1976, Bellow was at a Michigan State University writing workshop when a radical feminist publicly rebuked him for saying she had “balls.” He says he meant that as a compliment. Some formative experiences are […]

BY VERN TURNER Due to a lack of pigment cells, melanocytes, human palms are either pink or some shade of “flesh tone.” It is curious...

BY JOE CONASON Listening to Republicans in Washington [and Texas and Arizona] scream about the “crisis” of migrant children arriving from Central America on our southern border, it is puzzling to realize they don’t actually want to do anything to solve the problem. Nor do these hysterical politicians – led by that down-home diva Rick […]

BY DAVID PERRYMAN Sometime in the early 1300’s, according to Spanish tradition, the guys who were in charge of delivering bulls to the bullfight found...