The mostly media driven scandal talk involving President Obama has so far stirred barely a yawn among the public. There are good reasons. The four alleged scandals, Benghazi, the IRS, the AP leaks, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius supposed shakedown of corporations to help implement the health...

There are two pesky myths about Democratic presidents. One is that they are inherently dovish on foreign policy and they are anti-big business in their domestic policy. The GOP myth that Democratic presidents were chronic foreign policy pushovers got some traction in the early going with the GOP attacks on...

A week after the great debate over whether Charles Ramsey is an American hero or another American casualty of media-induced racial stereotyping or both after helping save the lives of the three kidnapped Cleveland women, one thing is now clear. Ramsey has done the seemingly impossible. He's turned racial stereotyping...

The fond hope of the GOP is that the census revelation that for the first time in census history a higher percentage of blacks than whites turned out for the 2012 presidential election is an aberration. The aberration is, of course, President Obama. The conventional political thinking is that record...

The GOP won't give up on Benghazi for the simple reason that any and everything no matter how big, small, trivial, or downright nutty, that even remotely allows it to slur President Obama it will race to the stars with. Benghazi is not simply the latest in the hit plan...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did the seemingly impossible -- he turned from court mute to a hit man on President Obama. In an interview at Duquesne University Law School in April, Thomas snidely rapped Obama for being the darling of the "elites." To Thomas that means liberals, progressives, intellectuals...

The GOP's whiplash of President Obama's Labor Secretary pick, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez, is not about his alleged over the top activist cheerleading of labor, civil rights and voting rights, or any supposed improprieties in his involvement with a housing case in St. Paul, Minnesota a...

Boston bomber suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly horded a small arsenal of guns. They were semi-automatic weapons. They did not have to go through a background check or have a permit. Authorities will now be forced to spend countless hours and personnel trying to track down exactly how,...

President Obama's first official statement on the Boston Marathon bombing couldn't have been plainer on this point: "We still do not know who did this or why. And people shouldn't jump to conclusions before we have all the facts." Yet all it took was an isolated and scantily...

In rapid succession, Tea Party leaders in Alaska, Ohio, and Florida recently saber-rattled GOP governors, chairs, and local party officials of various stripes. Their offense was that they were too moderate, too conciliatory to Democrats, and had strayed too badly from conservative dogma. They came back at the GOP right...

The dust had barely settled on the Senate's vote to shortstop the GOP filibuster against the compromise deal that some GOP and conservative Democratic senators brokered on the gun control bill before other GOP and conservative Democratic senators began pecking away at it. The deal was to support background checks...

For five hours on August 8, 1944, the young second lieutenant stood nervously before an all-white nine judge military jury panel at Camp (now Fort) Hood, Texas. He faced multiple charges in his court martial proceedings. His only real offense was that he had defied a segregation mandate. While he...

President Obama's proposal to put Medicare and Social Security back on the budget bargaining table ignited a virtual palace revolt among administration loyalists. The flashpoint is the proposal to tie Social Security payments to a chained CPI. The chained CPI which uses the most tight-fisted measure to gauge inflation would...

The longstanding reason for shoving the courts, the federal government and the states into private relations between consenting adults of the same sex is the Bible. There are those two infamous and interminably cited passages in Leviticus -- 18:22 and 20:13 -- that deem a man "lying with" another man...

Renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson managed a unique feat when he drew fire twice in barely a week's time. First he knocked President Obama at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He drew big applause from the hardline conservative throng there. Some were so enraptured by Carson that they even took...

No matter which way the Supreme Court ultimately rules on gay marriage, pro or con, narrowly or expansively, gay rights organizations owe President Obama a debt of gratitude for pushing the nation's opinion envelope forward in support of gay marriage. It's true that gay rights' groups waged a tireless decade's...

Dismayed -- yes, surprised -- no, that Los Angeles could at some point in the not-too-distant future see drone use and indeed even drone strikes in and around the city. That possibility became more than just a worst case, futuristic horror when a batch of Southland firms eagerly...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took much heat from some Democrats and gun control advocates for in effect dumping provisions for restarting the ban on assault weapons sales, and from early appearances, the requirement for more stringent background checks. Both are the cornerstones of any meaningful gun control legislation. Without...

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus got part of it right when he tasked a handful of key, but worried Republicans to come up with some proposals to make the party competitive again in national elections. There really were no surprises in the proposals they came up with. They included:...

The GOP is as always a bundle of politically cynical contradictions. Even before Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's half-day-long Senate floor filibuster against President Obama's drone war, various GOP politicos took shots at him for overreaching on national security. He's been lambasted for failing to close Gitmo and his presumed willingness...