BY GARY EDMONDSON Glen Huber got me good. It was 1960. Our fifth grade class was going to have a mock presidential election – Kennedy/Nixon. Glen’s family was one of the few Catholic families in our small Indiana town. Our teacher asked for any endorsing speeches. Glen stood up and opened by saying, “I’m not going…
BY NYLA ALI KHAN We inhabit a world that has been sinking further into the morass of political unaccountability and cultural repression after the gut-wrenching events of Sept. 11, 2001. We witnessed the fizzling out of the fragile Peace Pact in Palestine in 2003. We witnessed the reduction of Afghanistan in Southwest Asia to a…
BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES This year marks the 50th year since we lost the greatest prophet for justice and social change in the history of the United States. I would have hoped that we would have progressed much more in fulfilling Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream than we have, and in many ways we have…
BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES I agree with the president that in many ways he has accomplished more than any other president in his first 100 days … He has accomplished more rounds of golf than most other presidents in his first 100 days. He has accomplished spending more taxpayer money on himself and his family…
BY VERN TURNER In one of George Carlin’s books, the introduction page has a quote from Hermann Goering, Hitler’s No. 2. It goes something like this: “Of course the people don’t want war, but if you keep telling them they are being attacked and that if they don’t follow the government’s policies, you accuse them…
