Dennis Byrne has a column today in Chicago Tribune that spouts the "baloney" he falsely accuses the Obama campaign of offering. Byrne begins by claiming that Obama "promised never" to reject public financing. This is utterly false, and I defy Byrne to offer a single example of Obama stating...

I’ve just listened to James Dobson's Focus on the Family radio program denouncing Barack Obama. Dobson is a right-wing crackpot, advocating all sorts of bizarre ideas about child-raising and the Bible that I detail below. But Dobson is also a powerful political figure in the Republican Party, someone whose...

This week, one attack by John McCain on Barack Obama has become an article of unquestioned faith repeatedly declared in the mainstream media: that Obama broke a promise to accept public financing in the general election. There’s only problem with this claim by the press: it is demonstrably untrue and...

Barack Obama’s decision to reject public financing for the general election was the right decision. It’s not only the best way for him to win. It’s also the most progressive stand to take, and the best way to help reform the campaign finance system. This is a broken system, and...

The blogosphere is rightly amused at Mary Grabar’s column for townhall.com on Monday in which she wrote:

Obama’s advance troops have already taken over our college campuses, have bound and gagged our conservative professors, have ravished our virgins, have pillaged our stores of wisdom, and have ensconced...

Today, Rush Limbaugh began a new line of openly racist attacks on Barack Obama. According to Limbaugh, Obama is "stupid." The racist part is Limbaugh’s assertion that Obama "probably didn’t get out of Harvard without affirmative action."

As a college dropout, Rush Limbaugh probably doesn’t understand the use of blind...

In the exit polls from Kentucky, racism once again played a major factor in Hillary Clinton’s overwhelming victory. The racism revealed in Kentucky (where 17% of the voters were whites who said they voted against Obama partly because of race) ranked a close second to last week’s vote...

Adam Nagourney of the New York Times just posted his column from tomorrow analyzing "the factors and developments that undercut her candidacy, some self-inflicted, others inflicted upon her." It’s truly one of the dumbest pieces of political punditry I’ve seen in this election, and it takes a lot to...

According to the exit polls, West Virginia's voters revealed that they are the most racist in the country so far in the Democratic primaries. Fully 20% of the voters consisted of whites who reported that race was a factor, and they voted for Clinton 84-10 over Obama. That's a...

The Limbaugh Effect in Indiana and North Carolina was real, but fairly small; however, it was enough to reduce Obama's margin of victory in North Carolina, and it easily provided enough votes to give Clinton her 23,000-vote margin of victory in Indiana.

According to exit polls, in Indiana, among...

The Republican National Committee is trying to suppress a Democratic National Committee ad against John McCain, claiming that it’s "false information." And they’re right: the DNC ad does give a misleading impression about McCain and his comments about occupying Iraq for 100 years, which McCain does make conditional on...

Hillary Clinton’s entire margin of victory in Pennsylvania was due to racist whites who openly opposed Barack Obama because he is black. According to the exit polls, 13% of the voters were whites who said that race was important to them in voting, and 74% of them voted for...

Hillary Clinton’s last hope to win the nomination is to emerge victorious in the popular vote and convince superdelegates to steal away Obama’s victory in pledged delegates. Right-wing pundit Robert Novak claimed about Clinton, "Her strongest chance is to win the nation-wide popular vote."

If the purpose of counting...

The latest post-bitter polls showing an increase in Obama's lead following a weekend full of news networks trashing him about his "bitter" remarks is much more than a surge for Barack Obama; it's also a fundamental repudiation of the nattering nabobs of the media who imagined that the off-the-cuff...

Today on ABC's This Week, George Will denounced Barack Obama as an "elitist" and then told an outright lie about Obama, claiming that Obama had tried to "commiserate" with Iowans about high food prices by citing the price of Arugula at Whole Foods. Will observed mockingly that there are no...

There is now no chance for Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination. Even if she wins every remaining primary by a substantial margin, she will still lose the pledged delegate contest, and it is impossible to imagine that a supermajority of the superdelegates would destroy their own party in...

Out of all the ridiculous attacks on Barack Obama in this campaign season, none quite matches the silliness and desperation of the Clinton campaign's assertion (refuted by the University of Chicago Law School) that "Sen. Obama consistently and falsely claims that he was a law professor."

Sadly, Lynn...

I'm tired of the demands for apologies, the constant denouncing and rejecting, and the endless stream of campaign purges. It's time for the candidates to define themselves by what they think, and it's time for the inept media to return to real journalism and stop asking candidates about an endless...

Hillary Clinton suffered a huge defeat last night in Mississippi, and now faces an insurmountable pledged delegate lead by Barack Obama. But what most pundits missed was the fact that Obama's victory would have been even more overwhelming in Mississippi (and he might have won the popular vote in Texas)...

The national United Church of Christ is under attack from the IRS, the AP reports, because the church invited one of its members, Barack Obama, to speak at the church's national conference last summer. The invitation came before Obama had decided to run for president. What's at stake here...