Month: March 2006

Joel Chandler Harris’s Brer Rabbit escaped from Brer Fox by repeatedly pleading “Please, Brer Fox, don’t fling me in that briar patch.” When the fox did so, Brer Rabbit made his escape. I remember...

…The jobless and homeless in this nation, whose numbers are legion, are not freeloading parasites. They are, for the most part, people whose living has vanished as company after company has closed plants and...

“Apology sought for Feingold remark—Washington – Activist groups, bloggers and Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean on Wednesday castigated Sen. Wayne Allard for saying that another senator sides...

You thought they would stop at banning abortion? No dearest American women, the Republicans not only want to own the rights to your uteri, they want to make sure that any sex you might have will put them to good use pushing out...

How many people does a reporter or NGO have to witness dying under conditions that resemble ethnic cleansing, before they either report it, or become an accessory to the crime? They say there is a rule, that every story must be...