by Larry Greenfield | Aug 17, 2012 | Opinion
Plenty of gory stories about injury, mayhem and death in America this summer, highlighted by mass violence in suburban Denver and Milwaukee. Illinois has escaped those incidents, we think. Oh, but then there’s Chicago, with its own – more extended in time and...
by Larry Greenfield | Apr 27, 2012 | Opinion
The issue biblically isn’t, this time, only or even primarily about keeping one’s word, although that feature of integrity is indeed part of the whole picture – as it is so often. But no, in this case, the New Testament standard has to do principally with...
by Wendell Griffen | Aug 3, 2011 | Opinion
Political commentators will write about which politicians and political party gained and who lost in this debate over the debt ceiling. They should also report that President Barack Obama caved in to those who demanded that the nation make drastic cuts in domestic...
by Larry Greenfield | Jul 22, 2011 | Opinion
Those pushing for small government these days are doing a good job of keeping their utter joy under wraps. Most of the time, the rest of us see these folks lamenting the growth of government. They make pledges not to raise taxes or the debt ceiling as a way of...
by Mark Woods | Apr 5, 2011 | Opinion
Those who attended the demonstrations in London on March 26 must have felt they were too large to ignore. Perhaps as many as 400,000 people marched against the British government’s cuts, and this before they have really begun to bite anything like as hard as...