Opinion

                
  • United, we can win

    United, we can win

    January 16, 2003

    Opinion As we celebrate the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King this week, tens of thousands of U.S. troops are being deployed to the Persian Gulf for war on Iraq and our country is rocked...

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  • Zionism  what it does and does not mean

    Zionism what it does and does not mean

    January 16, 2003 By John Gilman

    Opinion Emile Schepers’ Nov. 16 column about the relationship of Zionism and anti-Semitism presented some useful history that stopped just before the founding of Israel under a UN resolution the Soviet Union sponsored in 1947.

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  • Looking at the past and fighting for the future

    Looking at the past and fighting for the future

    January 9, 2003 By John Gilman

    Opinion Fortunately for me, my strength to survive is derived from my knowledge of dialectical materialism. Dialectical materialism has proven time and again that when the chips are down, historical events and movements make history turn...

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  • Global warming: Smog belches from Bush administration

    Global warming: Smog belches from Bush administration

    January 9, 2003

    The New Year began with environmentalists pressing two separate lawsuits charging the Bush administration with gutting the Clean Air Act and pushing policies that have accelerated global warming that poses a long term threat to life...

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  • The budget  First congressional battle

    The budget First congressional battle

    January 7, 2003

    The federal government has been operating on stop-gap spending measures ever since Oct. 1 because the House and Senate could not agree on a budget for fiscal year 2003. Instead, Congress passed several “continuing resolutions” that...

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