| Aug 23, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyWe would do well to remember why America as a nation exists at all: The early colonists from Europe fled the tyranny of monarchs who could tell them whom, how, whether, when, and where they could worship. We shouldn’t have to be reminded that religious freedom...
| Aug 9, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThis year’s anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington promises to be memorable.Though big commemorations aren’t typical for 47th anniversaries, thousands will be in the streets on August 28 commemorating the march, including many people...
| | Food / FarmingI don’t know how the corn is doing this year, but Washington is producing a bumper crop of irony for America’s black farmers. In the same week that Shirley Sherrod, a black Department of Agriculture official, was falsely accused of anti-white racism by a...