BY SHARON MARTIN Ralph Fletcher says in his book, Poetry Matters, that “ the most important moments, when everyone else is silent, poetry rises to...

BY VERN TURNER A recent blog piece by Mark Sumner succinctly summarized the state of the Republican Party and its crumbling legitimacy for representing the...

BY RALPH NADER If the Democrats in Congress were all drinking water from the same faucet, there might be a clue to their chronic fear...

BY VERN TURNER Most people using Internet and e-mail have seen the nostalgic bits that circulate. I’ve received a jukebox with hits from every decade that...

BY SHARON MARTIN Nobody wants a government any bigger than it needs to be. It isn’t the size of government on which the two sides...