To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Republicans’ Benghazi Report Seeks Repetition, Not Truth
BY FROMA HARROP When Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, her approval ratings hit an all-time high. Republican luminaries Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, John McCain – the list goes on – all sang her praises. Then she ran for president. The applause stopped, and the Republican opposition searched for a scandal, […]
Some Are More Equal Than Others
BY DAVID PERRYMAN
George Orwell’s 1945 novel Animal Farm was a political satire where animals had overthrown the farmer and established their own society based...
Join In The Fireworks: The Ones You Watch Or The Ones...
BY GENE POLICINSKI
This year's State of the First Amendment national survey , conducted in partnership with USA Today, does more than just sample our...
Our Days Of Guns
BY VERN TURNER
Allow me to begin with a poem written by my colleague and friend, Steven Love of Dallas:
VOICES
Voices, the high-pitched tones of childhood,
Laughing...