Commentary

The worst thing about the CEO of the Tennessee Hospitality Association Walt Baker’s silly, sick, demeaning depiction of First Lady Michelle Obama as a chimp iro nically is not the depiction. It’s Baker’s clueless defense.

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Whenever Palin opens her mouth, it becomes a font of ridiculousness—like the time during the 2008 campaign when she couldn’t answer a 3rd grader’s question regarding the role of the vice-president; or her reference to ‘the Department of Law’, a federal agency that doesn’t exist; or the time she…

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The new political article of faith is that tea baggers are blatant or closet racists. MSNBC’s Keith Olberman, Meghan McCain, and Captain Marvel Comics Captain America and his black sidekick Falcon, are the latest to poke fun at and pick a fight with the tea baggers over their alleged serial racism.

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It was February 25, 1965, and I was nine years old. My father was intently listening to a radio broadcast which I really couldn’t hear, and besides, I was too involved in playing with the dye-cast metal Texaco tanker truck I got for Christmas.

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Sarah Palin may turn out to be Obama’s greatest political asset. Polls show that Obama is the most polarizing Democrat since Truman. Palin, in turn, is the most polarizing Republican since Lincoln.

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With the “Tea Party Convention” concluding in Nashville with wall to wall coverage by the mainstream media, it is clear that the right continues to outmaneuver the left in terms of capturing the limelight to promote the conservative cause.

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The winning party inexorably ‘discovers’ – be it a landslide like Johnson in 1964 or a squeaker like Bush in 2000 – that the voters have delivered a mandate. And not just any mandate. But one that serendipitously demands enactment of the very program the new administration already plans to enact.

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By a bitterly contested 5-4 vote, the Court’s ruling reverses one hundred years of of legislative efforts to curtail special interest influence over the political process . While the the majority opinion held that the ruling upholds the rights of corporations to express their First Amendment rights…

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For those of you who do not know who Willie Lynch was or the significance of his contribution to the history of race and slavery in the Americas, it may be enough to know that the term ‘lynching’ was derived from his name. But it isn’t the entire story.

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Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid’s characterization of then-candidate Barack Obama’s chances to win the presidency because he is a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect” — well, was right.

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