Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Of our own making

The Rev. Andrew Greeley's column, "Neck deep in the Big Muddy"[July 29], was excellent. He has warned us for a long time that theShiites would form their own theocracy. Why can't the majorproponents of this war -- evangelical Christians -- accept thiswisdom? These Christians have failed to understand the history ofIraq. Iraq helped us fight communism for three decades. But ascommunism was falling, we turned our back on Saddam Hussein, and soall …

Edwards Pushes Better Education for Poor

PITTSBURGH - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Tuesday called for measures to strengthen education for poor children and make schools more economically diverse in order to fight poverty.

"We don't just have racial segregation in our schools, we have huge economic segregation," Edwards said while on the Pittsburgh leg of an eight-state tour to highlight poverty issues. "We have two public school systems in America ... one for those who live in wealthy suburban areas and then one for everybody else."

Speaking to about 250 people in Pittsburgh's impoverished Hill district, Edwards criticized last month's Supreme Court decision rejecting school diversity plans …