BY CHARLES C. HAYNES Nothing does more to erode public support for the First Amendment than public stunts deliberately designed to offend people of faith. Think...

BY FROMA HARROP Americans are in the dumps about their future. What does that have to do with legroom in economy class? Everything. The middle class sees its stature shrinking in the global pecking order and in a culture that favors money over well-being. There can be no better example for this than the indignities […]

BY BOB BEARDEN Ninety-four years ago women finally won the right to vote in this nation. Something that was a long time in coming and...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Trial lawyers will tell you that any good prosecutor could convince a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Well, meet that ham sandwich! Here in my burg of Austin, TX, grand jury has just indicted Gov. Rick “Rooti-Toot-Toot” Perry, a real ham – only not as smart. He’s charged with official […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH There’s a painful lesson to be learned for liberals, especially liberal Jews, from the hopefully concluded war in Gaza. Most of my liberal friends desperately want to believe that the fact that Israel is subject to more criticism than almost any country in the world [including some very scary ones], that respected […]