OK, I might as well admit it.

When I first heard of the Occupy Wall Street initiative, I thought it was just a group of overfed and overeducated and underemployed "white" boys trying to get their own generational street cred. "New Millennial Hippies" (Mippies?) out to gain a little...

The assessment of Barack Obama one year after his historic election has been pretty harsh, whether you're on the right or left. Most pundits seem to believe he's already let US down. His teacher would give little Barack a C with a "needs to apply himself more. Much room for...

Oh, the irony.

The very personality traits that made him appealing to enough "whites" to elect him the first "black" president of the U.S. of A. may prevent Barack Obama from being the transformative leader America desperately needs now.

Of course it's still way too...

It must have hit him like a hard slap in his face. A sucker punch in the gut.

Dr. Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr., world-renowned, globe-trotting professor, public intellectual, occasional New York Times/New Yorker columnist, multi-published author and academic, multi-media star, and FOO (Friend of Oprah) treated just like...

Last week I posted my first HuffPost piece. This week, one half of the Newt Limbaugh tag-team recanted his "racist" comments about Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Wow!

I knew my words on HuffPost would have great reach and influence, but I had no idea how much. Can Rush Gingrich be...

I've tried my best to restrain myself from frivolously posting my thoughts here on HuffPost. I admit I've been a little intimidated by the level of thought and writing I've usually seen here. Even when I disagree, I feel I'm not disagreeing with a moron.

But yesterday, when I read...