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The intersection of race, culture, and politics
The dust has cleared from Super Tuesday, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a 243 delegate lead over Rick Santorum, who has the next highest delegate total. At this point in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, presidential candidate Barack Obama had a 125 delegate lead over ...
I’d like to tell you why Rick Santorum’s extreme religious views should be blamed for hampering his campaign’s performance on Super Tuesday, but I don’t believe that to be true. What will be hampering Rick Santorum’s campaign is the same thing that has caused major problems for every Republican ...
Could Rush Limbaugh finally be on his way to joining Glenn Beck in right wing wacko purgatory? I don’t know how to tell Rush Limbaugh this, but after his three day SlutFest Extravaganza, where he continually defamed the character of Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student who testified before ...
Practically every progressive Democrat in the country knows what ALEC stands for—American Legislative Exchange Council—and the true purpose behind it. Rich conservatives basically took the model that has been used informally but successfully by lobbyists whose corporate clients often need precise ...
So what will it mean if Rick Santorum wins the Michigan primary tonight if his victory is partly due to Democrats who decided to vote for him only to prolong the agony we have all come to know as the Republican presidential primary? Not much, unless Mitt Romney suddenly decides to throw in the ...
If it is not illegal for a devout Muslim to become the president of the United States, why are people so hell bent on trying to prove that President Obama is one? Would it matter if any president we’ve had who is still alive were to admit that he was not really a practicing Christian? Is it ...
At this point, I'm not sure if we are watching the Republican presidential debates to see who might win the nomination or if we are watching them to see who will make the most outrageous claim against the President Obama. Last night's debate in Mesa, Arizona was a lot like one of those greatest ...
So far we’ve had Free Market Jesus, Cowboy Jesus, Mack Daddy Jesus, and Finally Come To Jesus as front runners in the Republican primary. Now we’ve got My Jesus Is Your Jesus Dammit topping the political polls. Whether Rick Santorum is a devout Catholic or not really doesn’t mean anything to me ...
It was pretty big of the Houston family to let the world, via television camera, into Whitney Houston’s home going celebration, one of the most personal, most heartrending processes any family has to endure. In Whitney Houston’s case, the friends and family members who gave remarks about her life ...
Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman wants to cancel Black History Month. “Isn’t segregation by month still segregation?” is a question Tilghman examines in his documentary More Than A Month that airs tonight on PBS. I’ve been wrestling with the same question this month myself, wondering if I may ...
This seems to be the year that the truth finally comes out about a lot of the myths in which the general public has had an enduring attachment. I don’t know if it is due to our president, who seems at first glance to be in political peril practically every day, yet manages to survive by relying ...
I saw a tweet yesterday—“How Obama Could Have Killed Bin Laden Harder”—that cracked me up. Intrigued, I clicked on the hashtag # CPACpanels and saw several people who populate my Twitter timeline making fun of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) convention in Washington D.C ...
Until the good bishops of the Catholic church can figure out how to keep their priests from molesting young boys, I have no use for their histrionics over the Obama administration’s decision to mandate coverage of the cost of contraceptives in healthcare plans. None of the news producers for our ...
I have been wondering all week what to write about the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s move against Planned Parenthood, but Linda Burger, a 56-year-old breast cancer survivor who resides in Las Vegas, NV, says it on Youtube better than I or any man can. Standing in her bathrobe in front of her digital ...
On the way into work yesterday morning, I listened to Neal Boortz, Atlanta’s local talk radio blowhard, as he tried valiantly to convince one of his callers that Newt Gingrich was not atop the national polls in any category. On the way home, I listened to Sean Hannity’s nationally syndicated radio ...