Getting reasonable about faith
The bitter irony of the papal speech that touched off riots, firebombings and possibly the killing of a nun in Somalia is the topic of the speech itself. Pope Benedict...
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If Bobby goes, will Osama call Whitney?
It's sad that Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston have decided to separate after 14 years of marriage, which sounds like a lifetime compared to most celebrity hookups. I only hope...
When `diversity’ trumps equality
A lot of people have their shorts bunched in a knot over a decision by the CBS reality game show "Survivor: Cook Islands" to divide its competing "tribes" by race...
Docudramas don’t always deal in facts
Here are five words that I never expected to put together in the same sentence: Bill Clinton owes Rush Limbaugh. Yes, it was El Rushbo, hero of the right, who...
What boys can become when they leave the ‘hood
What if you took junior high school-age boys, rated as "high risk" in their low-income, high-crime urban neighborhood, and plopped them down in a low-enrollment, high-quality school in rural Africa?...
Let’s finish job in conquering poverty in U.S.
Has poverty fallen to a glass floor? After a decade of declining welfare dependency and building employment rolls, poverty stubbornly refuses to be further reduced. Census Bureau officials accentuated the...
2 tales of New Orleans
There was never any serious doubt among those who really know New Orleans that the city would rise again after Hurricane Katrina. Though bruised and battered, the city still receives...
Black New Orleans fights back
Compared to other New Orleans neighborhoods, the Lower 9th Ward is Pluto--remote, disrespected and feeling devalued. Yet unlike the recently redesignated "dwarf planet," the Lower 9th still has advocates fighting...
Anti-poverty victories have to begin at home
Amid the flood of one-year-after analyses of Hurricane Katrina's impact on the Gulf Coast, it is important to remember what Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said on the Senate floor shortly...
AndrewYoung’s melting pot boils over
After making what he admits were "demagogic" remarks about Jewish, Asian and Arab business owners, Andrew Young has done the right thing. The former civil rights leader, Atlanta mayor and...