| Jul 5, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyPerhaps the greatest freedom in a democracy is freedom of speech. Throughout our nation’s history, people have died fighting not only for our right to speak, but for our right to be heard. The Internet is the greatest communications network ever created because...
| Jun 28, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThe Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that defined the Second Amendment as the right to keep handguns in homes is ironic. This case, McDonald vs. Chicago, comes from the city with one of the highest gun crime and murder rates in the country, driven by a growing gang...
| | Rights / DemocracyPresident Obama’s Fiscal Commission–a group of lawmakers, former officials, and other experts charged with developing a bipartisan plan to stabilize our soaring national debt–is primarily holding closed-door hearings. The commission’s...
| Jun 23, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyReaders tend to love or despise OtherWords columnist Donald Kaul. Here’s the latest on their letters. “I enjoy all your columns they publish in the (Biloxi, MS) Sun Herald, but this morning’s column was particularly enjoyable,” wrote Ms. Carole...
| Jun 21, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyAs the immigration debate rages on, I’ve been thinking about my own relationship with immigration. Growing up, I always thought of America as a destination. A place where most people, regardless of where they lived, wanted to be. My parents are from Nigeria, and...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe South has made more progress in providing children the opportunity to attend desegregated schools. Now, sadly, it’s also the region where re-segregation is growing fastest. When the Supreme Court issued its pivotal Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954,...
