The Rev Jesse Jackson apologized for ldquo crude remarks rdquo that he made about Sen Barack Obama on a television show when he thought his microphone was off Jackson rsquo s remarks were certainly crude He said he wanted to cut off part of Obama rsquo s anatomy But there seemed to me to be

nbsp In a culture that is dripping in irony it is rare that cynicism is an appropriate moral stance But the communiqu eacute on global climate change coming from the G-8 summit of industrialized powers requires precisely such cynicism nbsp The leaders of the industrialized powers declared t

nbsp For months now John McCain has been calling Barack Obama na iuml ve or worse for suggesting that a timetable for withdrawal of U S forces from Iraq was not only possible but desirable Obama rsquo s contention has been that only a timetable will force the kind of political solution nbsp t

Barack Obama is not shy about sharing his personal life with the rest of us Indeed if you decide to run for the presidency you should anticipate that every nook and cranny of your life will be examined in excruciating detail But his speech to the African Methodist Episcopal Church last week in

Are you planning a July 4th BBQ A real BBQ or a fake one Until I worked in Little Rock Arkansas I thought a BBQ was about burgers and hot dogs when in fact that is grilling not BBQ BBQ is about tough cuts of meat ribs or brisket being slow-cooked for ten hours or more then served wit

Sen John McCain has seen his support among Latino voters tank and he needs to do something about it For years the GOP s share of this demographic has been growing and in 2004 George W Bush garnered 44 percent of the Latino vote But recent polls have Obama taking 60 percent of Latinos to McCa

Barack Obama s campaign was trying hard to address to challenges to his candidacy this week Amidst charges that he is less than patriotic Obama gave a major speech in Independence Missouri yesterday And to shore up his credentials on foreign policy the campaign announced that Obama will be m

A front page story in this morning s Washington Post highlights the effects of persistent false rumors about Barack Obama The rumors are spread on the Internet and by word-of-mouth this last still being the most effective means of communication devised by humankind Indeed the story s protago

Sen Barack Obama went up on television with his first nationwide ad buy this past weekend His choice of markets for airing the ad was instructive including the usual swing states but also including several states where Democrats have not been competitive in years North Carolina Virginia Georgi

Just when it looked like the forced departures of the Reverends Jeremiah Wright and John Hagee from the political stage would usher in a modicum of sane religious discussions in the campaign the Reverend James Dobson took to the airwaves yesterday to re-introduce an unhealthy dose of zealotry to th