Wright

After the mainstream media's weeks of obsession with Rev. Wright, some of which continued even after Senator Obama denounced him in no unequivocal terms, many bloggers and activists seem to have succeeded in getting the media to again do what it is supposed to do: cover the issues that matter...

If you were to ask Lance Armstrong or Al Gore, I'd bet they'd say that setbacks are the salt that makes life's eventual victories so sweet. Life can't be full of victories, of course, because too many people are competing for the same stuff, so 'contests' are a basic psychological...

Asked by Bill O'Reilly's last week how she feels when she hears people like Rev. Wright say the ugly things he does about America and seeing people stand up and cheer in response (including to the notion that HIV was created to kill off black people) Hillary Clinton answered that...

As a life-long Republican--recently re-registered as an independent--and as a former sidekick to my late evangelical right wing father Francis Schaeffer, until I dropped out of the fundamentalist ghetto in the mid 80s and started writing fundamentalist-baiting funny (to me anyway) novels such as "Portofino," and as someone who once...

No doubt about it, Hillary Clinton's odds remain long in North Carolina. Just ask Erskine Bowles, who lost two Senate bids because of his connection to the Clinton administration, or ask Bill Clinton himself who lost the state twice. Or better yet, just look at the demographics. Clinton has yet...

In the past week, the media sharks have been swimming around Barack Obama, the Republican vultures and their surrogates in the Clinton campaign flying overhead ready to devour. What has been Obama's reaction? Calm, thoughtful, reasoned responses.

He has not lost his cool. He has looked positively presidential. He hasn't...

Back in the dim and distant past of this presidential campaign (i.e., February), I wrote a pre-debate column listing questions I would like to hear both Democratic candidates answer. Today's column is a revision of this original. Many of the questions I have are the same, for which I...

If you want to understand why Rev. Jeremiah Wright said the U.S. government invented AIDS, or what Barack Obama sought to accomplish in his Philadelphia speech on race, the best commentary is political scientist Marc Howard Ross's book Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict -- even if it never...