BILL FLETCHER: How can the Oil Companies be making all this Money ?
It is obscene that the oil companies can make billions of dollars in profits, blame the oil producing countries, and shift the entire burden onto the average person.

GEORGE E. CURRY: Katrina’s Other Victims
Residents of Mississippi's Gulf Coast have been victimized more than twice in a year.

HARRY C. ALFORD: Doing Business and Finding Work in the Gulf
It has been almost a year since the Lord unleashed the most devastating hurricane to hit the coast of the United States.

Bush Failure to Appoint More Black Judges is a ‘Travesty’
Overall, 200 Bush appointees have been confirmed to the federal bench; only 15 or 7.5 percent of them are African-Americans. And seven of the 15 were replacing other Blacks leaving the bench. When Congress recessed Tuesday, there were 26 nominations pending, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee, none of them African-Americans.