JASPER’S VALUABLE LESSONS FOR THE REST OF THE NATION
John William King thought killing a black man would ignite a racial war. That's what he said in his writings, his tattoos and his boasting, according to the evidence that...
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WHEN THE RIGHT-TO-DIE ADVOCATES THREATEN OUR RIGHT TO LIVE
Mike Wallace has had second thoughts about his controversial airing of a videotaped, doctor-assisted suicide on CBS' "60 Minutes," he told a seminar at his alma mater, the University of...
THE BURDEN OF PROOF
It's official! The moral majority is dead. That's the word from Paul Weyrich. He's the conservative broadcaster who first suggested that televangelist Jerry Falwell name his famous political organization the...
PROTECTING AN AMERICAN’S RIGHT TO HATE
I'll say this for Matthew Hale. He lets you know what's on his mind. That's about all I'll say for him, since Hale's mind is so small and narrow. Hale,...
KIDS LIGHT A CANDLE FOR HUMAN FREEDOM
The next time you think ordinary people can't make a difference in world affairs, think of the Colorado schoolchildren who are buying Africans out of slavery. Teacher Barbara Vogel's fifth-graders...
FORGET SPIN; `THE PROCESS’ DOESN’T WORK
Seldom has the death penalty looked more hazardous to our national sense of decency than it does today. Seldom have we seen so much evidence of close calls in which...
ANTI-GUN LAWSUITS HAVE LIMITS
"Protect me from what I want," a poet once wrote. That line might well be applied to the cities that have filed an unprecedented wave of lawsuits against gun manufacturers....
RACE POLITICS INFLAME ANOTHER `N-WORD’
There's more to some words than meets the eye or the ear. Look, for example, at the eruption that followed a white District of Columbia mayoral aide's use of a...
`THE HOOD’ AND OTHER BLACK MYTHS
As the trial began last week for the first of three white men charged in the Jasper, Texas, "lynching," as many have called it, many were reminded of how little...
QUICK! NAME THIS DECADE
Oops! The '90s are about to end and we have not gotten around to naming them yet. We'd better get moving. Since at least the Roaring '20s, our national memory...