by Lee B. Spitzer | Apr 27, 2021 | Opinion
The Ottoman Empire’s assault upon its Armenian population, later characterized as the Armenian Genocide, commenced in April 1915. After 106 years, the United States government officially declared the horror a genocide. President Joseph Biden issued a statement on...
by Monty Self | Mar 25, 2021 | Opinion
President Joseph Biden declared on March 23 that health care is a right. “We have a duty not just to protect it, but to make it better and keep becoming a nation where health care is a right for all, not a privilege for a few,” he said in remarks at the James Cancer...
by Paul Lewis | Feb 2, 2021 | Opinion
“What are the common objects of love that define us as Americans?” President Biden asked in his inaugural address. He went on to list several and concludes by naming truth. Then he observed, “Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 20, 2021 | Opinion
As Donald Trump basks in a self-designed and elaborate military send-off from Washington and Joe Biden takes the solemn oath of office as our 46th president, I am reminded that in America, we don’t do kings. We do elections. Free and fair elections: cries and lies of...
by Jim Hopkins | Jan 20, 2021 | Opinion
Many tributes to Martin Luther King Jr. fail to recognize that he was a Baptist pastor, a minister formed by and committed to the traditions of the African American church. The connection between King’s powerful expression of the truth and the truth-telling tradition...