It's been overly publicized, overly discussed and overly criticized but it hasn't been solved. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill had everybody talking about the catastrophe that hit the Gulf Coast for a...

The protest against the Life March at the State Capitol on Saturday has once again raised the issue of abortion. With this in mind, two of our columnists debate the legality and morality of the issue.     Macy:...

Shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve, between 3,000 and 5,000 red-winged blackbirds and European starlings were found dead near the town of Beebe, Ark. The story catapulted Beebe into the national...

We've all had that moment when we temporarily become our own doctor. You have a cold or a sore throat, so you grab the antibiotics stored in your medicine cabinet conveniently left over from your last...

In my brief tenure as a pop culture columnist, I've garnered a pretty solid — and accurate — reputation for criticizing most of the entertainment trends I cover. I've always insisted nothing...

Mark the date — on Jan. 18, 2010, an Alabama politician drew harsh criticism for saying that if someone has not accepted Jesus as his or her savior, he or she was not his brothers and sisters. The...

The proposed merger between Southern University at New Orleans and the University of New Orleans, announced Tuesday by Gov. Bobby Jindal could be mistaken as an attempt to distract people from recent budget...

One hopes it's common knowledge that the voice of a government is not necessarily the voice of its people, especially when the society in question is not a relatively free one. With religionists ï¬ghting...

Scenic and pristine, the ocean was once a beautiful place to watch the blue tidal waves ebb and flow, an escape like no other. But beauty isn't timeless, and the loss of the ocean's scenery is your fault.   We're...

America doesn't particularly celebrate its growing atheist community. Perhaps former President George H.W. Bush expressed it best while campaigning in Chicago in 1988: "No, I don't know that atheists should...

It might only be the third week of January, but it seems the year has already had more than enough assassination attempts. No matter where they may have taken place — or whether they were successful...