To hear John McCain or Sarah Palin say it, "liberal" is a dirty word. They can't help sneering when they say the Senator Barack Obama if "the most liberal" U.S. Senator. What does that mean, in terms of Senator Obama's positions on legislation, and how does that compare to...

Well, I guess it was either that or write off the election. That’s a pretty tough choice, and I can understand why he did it. Barack Obama threw his ex-pastor under the bus today, right under the wheels. I can only imagine the pain on both sides of that event. Rev. Wright really didn’t help matters by...

On the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, many people, especially politicians, have felt obliged to look back at the Reverend through the gauzy fabric of his popular image, cultivated since that time by countless elementary school lessons taught in white suburbia. Most years, the...