President Obama's reversal on his decision to keep hands off the fundraising efforts of his campaign-aligned Super PACs raised a few eyebrows among campaign finance reform advocates. This seemed like a betrayal of Obama's oft-stated position that the relentless chase and dependence on fat cat donors to bankroll campaigns has...

GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is not a racist. But he's a class-A opportunist. The smoking gun proof is his much-maligned racist newsletters. Proof, not because they spewed racial bile, or that Paul pretty much knew that the writers of the racially loaded quips were fanning racial flames....

The bullet-riddled tee shirt of President Obama posted brazenly on Facebook by seven semi-automatic gun toting men among them a Peoria, Arizona, police sergeant was much more than the by now standard non-stop litany of racist cartoons, depictions, web postings, and kooky loose talk threats against President Obama....

South Carolina Democratic Congressman James Clyburn lambasted the GOP presidential candidates for talking race in code. There's plenty of ammunition for the attack with the stream of race-tinged references Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Mitt Romney made to food stamps, welfare, work ethics, and an entitlement society. Then...

GOP presidential contenders Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich, GOP strategist Karl Rove, and a few other GOP stalwarts loudly claim that the Bain issue is a potential presidential game loser for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

The story has been well-worked over. Romney supposedly cut, slashed and burned...

It was only a matter of time before the enshrined celebrity tabloid obsession would ensnare the Obama family. They have been ripe for the pickings of a media that for the past two decades has successfully parlayed gossip, innuendo, rumor, half-truths and outright lies into a hugely profitable growth industry....

There are two relentless constants in the manic drive by GOP ultra conservatives, tea party leaders and followers, and unreconstructed bigots to make President Obama a one-term president. One is their drumbeat, non-stop barrage of racist depictions, slurs, and digs at Obama. The other is their drumbeat, non-stop barrage of...

GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul just can't seem to help himself when it comes to his fetish on a law which has been on the books for nearly five decades and which has long since been rendered a moot point by even avowed white supremacists. That's the 1964 Civil Rights...

The Iowa caucus is a sideshow -- a good one, but a sideshow nonetheless. The one man who knows that is President Obama. He, and his reelection team, publicly slam the only challenger that can make the 2012 presidential race competitive, if not an actual horse race. That's Mitt Romney....

Matt's Damon's petty, tasteless, and insipid knock of President Obama as gutless again got plenty of press mention. He used the more street, colloquial term to symbolize the president's supposed cowardice but we'll leave it at "gutless." The almost irresistible temptation is to chalk this up to the star actors...

Things got worse for GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul when his GOP presidential rival Newt Gingrich called Paul on the carpet for purported racially inflammatory utterances he made in the 1990s in his officially approved newsletters, "Ron Paul's Political Report" and "Ron Paul's Freedom Report," which brought in a considerable...

Ron Paul will win the Iowa Caucus whether he actually comes out on top or not. A win for him simply means a solid showing, which he'll make. He'll accomplish that feat because he has a legion of young, and not so young, fanatical true-believer devotees that have anointed him...

Black voters will again give President Obama a sky high percentage of their vote in 2012. That was never in doubt. What is in doubt is how many will make up that percentage. It is the number, not percentage of black voters that turn out that will again ease the...

Even before President Obama publicly announced that he would tap Eric Holder for Attorney General, he knew Holder would be a tough sell job. So he quietly asked key Senate Republicans whether they would go to war to block his confirmation. The GOP response was at best a tepid, and...

With GOP presidential contender Herman Cain's presidential candidacy effectively dead, now's a good time to turn a hard glare on the suddenly surging GOP Presidential contender Newt Gingrich's racial skeletons. His closet is stuffed with them. The first reminder of that was his off-the-cuff crack at Harvard that...

Sooner or later, presumptive GOP presidential nominee frontrunner Mitt Romney will have to publicly answer which Romney will show up on the issue of race and diversity if he indeed gets the GOP nomination and snatches the White House in 2012. Will it be the Romney that claimed...

The excuses some Democrats give for their chill toward backing President Obama's reelection bid would fill up a legal pad. He's made much too nice with the GOP. He's put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. He hasn't pushed aggressively enough for a full-blown FDR-style jobs program. He...

GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain was emphatic when asked at his Scottsdale, Arizona press conference whether he'd drop out of the race over the lengthening sexual harassment charges against him. "No way" he said. He's right about sexual harassment not being the torpedo that will sink his presidential hopeful ship....

It was predictable and laughable. The pack of conservative talk show hosts, bloggers, and web sites all quickly snatched a worn page from Clarence Thomas and screamed that Cain was being mugged by the liberal media on sex harassment charges because he was a black conservative. Some couldn't resist spicing...

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain's win in the Iowa straw poll is more disturbing proof that his candidacy may not be the flash in the pan that many think. Cain added to his string of straw polls wins by barely nudging out presumptive GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney...