When Senator Hillary Clinton lobbed the slum-lord grenade at Sen. Barack Obama during the South Carolina debate last Tuesday most of us had never heard of this “Rezko” character.
What is instructive here was the way in which Senator Barack Obama parsed his official response the next day.
Sen. Obama distanced himself from Rezko by saying that […]

Isn’t it time someone took a closer look at Gov Huckabee’s unsubtle appeals to the bigots in his party? Yes.
And who else, but the scold of green rooms everywhere, Christopher Hitchens can deliver the required one-two punch?

In this country, it seems that you can always get an argument going about “race” as long as […]

The question is unavoidable.
To the media’s consternation, the debate was “boring” (This is what happens when you have three adults attempting to discuss substantive issues with civility.)
The winner at the debate, in my opinion, was the heckler who, for a change, was not shouting down the politicians but the quiz masters, NBC anchors Tim Russert […]

It has been educational these last few weeks keeping close track on the genesis and permeation of idiotic talking points throughout the media. One quickly discovers just how much is generated – not by the politicians – but by the media themselves. (As I’ve said elsewhere on this blog, we may need an […]

George W Bush, in his initial public offering back in 1999-2000 was, in fact, sold as an amalgamation of Huckabee and Romney. - Breeding, money, business on one hand, “aw-shucks Jesus loves me” compassion on the other. Of course, unlike Huckabee, Bush evidences no genuine empathy at all. His compassion […]

First, the rumor mill told us Obama was a “Manchurian” Muslim, now it turns out he’s a Black Muslim - who knew?
“Obama’s minister and friend, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and his Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, honored Farrakhan at a gala, bestowing on him its Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. […]

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Over the last few weeks, Rudy Giuliani’s own scandals and improprieties tended to brush the scandals and improprieties of his staff aside. Thanks to John Deady, co-chair of the Veterns for Rudy committee, they’re back in the news this afternoon. After touting his guy’s ability to chase those Muslims back “to […]

December 24, 2007
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Paul Won’t Rule Out Run as Independent
Ron Paul, the Texas congressman stirring up the Republican presidential contest with his libertarian-leaning views and online fundraising prowess, left the door open Sunday to running as an independent, should he not win the Republican nomination.
Paul, who has railed against excessive federal spending, also […]

December 23, 2007
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Columbia
You couldn’t blame Barack Obama for feeling all biblical on that second Sunday in December. There he was, emerging triumphantly from the same tunnel where the Gamecocks football team spills out on Saturdays, under the warm blue sky of an afternoon that felt miraculously like spring, amid the foot-stomps and […]

December 21
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Dec 21, 3:25 AM EST

Romney backpedals on statements _ again
By GLEN JOHNSON
Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) — Mitt Romney, who earlier this year had to backpedal on his hunting exploits, is explaining himself again after claiming an endorsement he did not receive and saying he witnessed his father in civil rights […]