Those who can make you believe absurdities
 can make you commit atrocities.

-Voltaire, Author and Philosopher 1694-1778

Ever since Barack Obama became the Democratic candidate, John McCain has been desperate. He must have been shaking in his shoes while Obama rocked our political world with his tidal wave of 21st-Century...

The sad news comes that Paul Newman died. Men and women all over this earth mourn for him. It is because we have all looked into his electric blue eyes and seen his humanity -- whether it was in the characters he nailed in his powerful films, or the man...

Dear Sisters (and I mean all you gals out there--no matter how old you are or what party you belong to, whether you work or stay home and care for your children, whether you live in the heart of our country or are flung on the farthest coast),

Even though...

Democratic pundits can shout to the Heavens above that Republican nominee John McCain's acceptance speech was old, tired, and boring -- not unlike the candidate himself I will add -- and that it doesn't matter. That what does matter is what the American people heard in his speech last...

Forty years ago my family was taking its annual vacation, which in the summer of 1968 was a trip to the Democratic National Convention, where my father was an Arkansas delegate. We loaded up our station wagon, as we always did for our summer road trips across the USA, and...

So John and Elizabeth Edwards have become the latest sacrifices to the new Colosseum: the Internet. Thumbs down to John's for his extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter! Then the mob turned to Elizabeth. This sad situation may have actually happened to her, but she doesn't have the right to decide...

John McCain got his panties in a wad when Senator Barack Obama, during his recent trip overseas, clearly demonstrated to voters in the United States, as well as to the 6.6 million Americans who live abroad that he is a world-class leader, raring and ready to go. The fact...

It was sad news to read of the decline of Southern catfish farms in today's New York Times. The farmers are going under because the cost of corn and soybean fish food has gone up so much it has sunk them, and the companies are draining their big ponds...

When I read New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt's dressing down of columnist Maureen Dowd, I was appalled. What a sterling example of how not to stand behind your man -- or woman, in this Times star columnist's case. This wussy editorial behavior came after some Hillary Clinton...

It has been quite a surprise as well as a joy to watch the usually follow-the-crowd media take down one of their own and the right-wing attack machine in a series of televised sorties. Of what do I speak? Just the backlash against E.D. Hill (aka Edith Ann Tarbox) and...

Yesterday, the Èglise St-Roch on the chic rue St-Honoré became the church of Yves Saint Laurent as the late designer's family, friends, and admirers made their final pilgrimage to the master -- this one to say goodbye to him. Saint Laurent fabulously reinvented the way women dressed for a modern...

During this political campaign, Hillary has made herself an icon for a group of women who have taken it on the chin--from men--their entire lives. They have demanded Hillary be crowned with the nomination because her victory is metaphorically theirs.

But the American people don't owe Hillary. Bill does.

Throughout...

It should've been Obama's night for smiling. After all these long, hard, and acrimonious months campaigning, he'd finally won. He had the delegates to be the Democratic nominee in this unprecedented and historic race!

Then why was our man so subdued as he delivered his hell of a speech...

I haven't cared that Hillary Clinton's last gasp of a campaign has gone on and on like a bad reality TV show. It was her democratic right to drag out the torment of her party, even if it was clearly not in the Democrats' best interest for her to continue...

Why were we so surprised by Barack Obama's clear ring of a victory on Tuesday? The short answer is that the media had been leading us down the path marked Hillary Momentum--the path on which she could possibly snatch victory, however it was achieved, out of the jaws of defeat--while...

The good senator from Illinois and the Great Black and White Hope for America Barack Obama has been absurdly and ridiculously raked through the coals because of "guilt by association" with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. I'm not going to dignify that nationally destructive feeding frenzy with any statement except...

It has been surreal to watch the Chinese demonstrate against the protesters who support human rights for Tibet, as the Olympic torch has been carried around the world -- and now the rallies in China against French retailer Carrefour, which the Chinese have targeted because of the company's alleged support...

Putting yesterday's Pennsylvania primary in the correct perspective: Obama is the one who "closed" his deal by narrowing the big margin Hillary had going into the state. Hillary blew half her point lead. She lost even if she won. Even Republican caricature Bill Bennett applauded Hillary on her campaign --...

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to ABC's Pennsylvania Democratic debate

The much-talked-about divisiveness in the Democratic Party is a hot topic to all Democrats and most Republicans, as the never-ending campaign of Hillary vs. Obama continues to take its toll. Wednesday night's debate was yet...

With breaking news of Senator Hillary Clinton's heretofore unknown personal history and incredible accomplishments coming out daily, I thought I'd do some research of my own. What I found was stunning! It seems that this presidential hopeful has broken the boundaries of time and space to make her mark...