College loans are casualties in drug war
In the hit movie "Traffic," the drug czar played by Michael Douglas laments a shocking discovery: The war on drugs, he says, "is a war on our nation's most precious...
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Calling a foul on athletes’ offensive talk
Athletes, like children, are better seen than heard. I'm probably not the first person to say that, but I don't care. It needs to be said again. Yet another highly...
MYSTERY BOAT REVEALS TRAGEDY
Maybe there was a boat full of slave kids, maybe there wasn't. Either way, the story got our attention and that's OK because slavery is real and a worldwide problem,...
LEARNING FROM THE MCVEIGH EXECUTION SHOW
U.S. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft has asked the media to refrain from becoming "[Timothy] McVeigh's co-conspirator in his assault on America's public safety and upon America itself." Sorry, sir, but...
WHEN RACIAL TENSIONS BOIL OVER
Add the name of Charles Luken, Cincinnati's Democratic mayor, to those of other local officials across the nation who have been surprised to find their cities had more racial tensions...
BUSH SHOULD RETHINK JACKSON’S OFFER
When Jesse Jackson offered his services to try to break the impasse over China's detention of an American surveillance plane and its crew members, I wondered what took him so...
THE APPEARANCE OF INTEGRATION
Are we Americans about as desegregated as we want to be? That question came to mind last week after two independent research teams reported similar findings--but not the same conclusions--about...
HEY, NADERITES, SEE A DIFFERENCE?
I have a few smug words to deliver to all of those well-meaning Green Party folks who were swept up in that charismatic Ralph Nader mania last year: I hope...
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING
In one of his final speeches, Martin Luther King Jr., said he wanted to be remembered simply as a "drum major for justice." Recent TV viewers may remember him in...
WEB FILTERS BACKFIRE ON THEIR FANS
History may well remember Jeffery Pollock as the candidate who censored himself. He didn't plan to do it. He merely fell prey, as politicians often do, to the age-old Law...