Herman Cain's short-lived flirt with the presidential nomination raises big questions for the GOP ahead of 2012. The biggest one being, how will the party attract Black and Latino voters in numbers large enough to swing the election their way?
What is bringing Herman Cain down isn't his color, but rather his off-color comments and gestures he's been accused of by women who've felt harassed and threatened by him, and frightened and angry enough to have filled out complaint reports.
Three so-called top-tier Republican presidential candidates are, even as we speak, busy disavowing their inconvenient earlier statements by employing what an old boss of mine called the "Let's do a 180" strategy.
African-Americans' 21st century reality is simply this: it's time to stand for something different. The debate we're having is no longer productive. It's time for solutions that come from us, from within our house, our family and ultimately our community as a whole.
There once was a rep named Chris Lee Whose bod none of us cared to see He showcased his pecs (More cut than Glenn Beck's) Guess he won't run for term ...
It was my first time to attend CPAC, and several things surprised me about the weekend: first, it was massive, with around 11,000 people attending. It was also dominated by Ron Paul supporters.
Government workers are the new group treated like parasites on the system; their jobs are illegitimate and disposable. Better to stick with the empty and symbolic than tackle the difficult.
John Boehner stayed in D.C. to play politics at a GOP dinner rather than attend the memorial of the victims of Jared Lee Loughner. That is a moment of news theater that Fox viewers eat up.
There once was a man named DeLay Seems now it is his time to pay He played dirty ball (Please listen up y'all) And now he is going away The judge sen...
By Will Nelligan Originally published on Turnstyle, a project of Youth Radio. I never thought I would see the day. CSPAN has finally jumped on the ...
My apologies to anyone tuning in who was expecting to see the 150th "Friday Talking Points" column, since it will be pre-empted for two weeks here. B...
Most resignation letters are just a few sentences long, if that. But now and then someone gets inspired and treats their exit strategy as a creative writing assignment. Here are some of the more interesting resignation letters of 2010.
Conventional wisdom would dictate that all things political look good for Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele. As the GOP's first Afri...
A politician who is against government is like an actor who is against entertainment. It's ridiculous. But because we hate politicians so much, we vote in the ones who pretend they really don't want to do their job.
Any pundit who advises Obama to "move to the center" must be required to define exactly what he or she means by "center." The political "center" of American politics is a moving target.