To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
A House Divided
BY SHARON MARTIN
“Have you ever seen the country so polarized?” the newswoman asked the historians, one conservative, one liberal.
Even historians have to take sides?...
Class Warfare
BY SHARON MARTIN
In 2004, during another debate about taxes and jobs, Gary Burtles, a labor economist with the Brookings Institution, pointed out that total...
Revisionist History, Theocrat-Style
BY DON NELSON
Mom, when she would hear me retort, “Everybody does it,” would not hesitate to ask, “If every body decided to jump off...
God And Guns
BY KAREN WEBB
We have preachers’ wives with so little faith in God that they need a gun for protection.
The Second Amendment trumps the Ten...
Uncontrollable: Pentagon, Corporate Contractors Too Big To Audit
BY RALPH NADER
The Reuters report put this colossal dereliction simply: “A law in effect since 1992 requires annual audits of all federal agencies –...