| Jan 17, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyA Southern heritage group is planning a celebration in Montgomery, Alabama, that will feature a parade down the city’s historic Dexter Avenue. That’s the same street where thousands of civil rights marchers rallied in support of voting rights at the...
| | Rights / DemocracySay what you will about the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). Add in the murder and severe injuries suffered by assorted bystanders in Tucson and it all proves that we’re still a free country. God bless America! Where else can a...
| Jan 16, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyIf you find it necessary to declare on national television, “I am a serious person,” you’re probably not. Meet Michele Bachmann. She’s currently running for president, but suffering a few credibility problems. One is that she keeps creating her...
| Jan 10, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyIt’s easy to find someone to wish you a Happy New Year. Strangers do it. Even people who don’t like you do it. It’s far more rare is to find someone who will tell you how to achieve it. I am that rare someone. I intend, before this column ends, to...
| Jan 3, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe only time four-year-old Logan got to play hide-and-seek with his dad this year was through a Plexiglass window at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, nine hours from his hometown. A person might be detained in a for-profit center like Stewart for any...
| | Rights / DemocracyWe are the greatest country on earth. If you don’t believe it, just ask us. American “exceptionalism”–the declaration of which produces that warm feeling of knowing there’s nobody as good as you are–is a growth industry these days,...
