Hiding behind black voters
White guilt has exhausted itself, President-elect Barack Obama once wrote. Well, not so fast. His former opponent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago, apparently thinks there's still some life...
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No magic in ‘Magic Negro’
Has the party of Abraham Lincoln become the party of Rush Limbaugh? Stay tuned. Chip Saltsman, a candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee, brought strange new attention to...
No need to get mad at Obama’s church pal
Some of President-elect Barack Obama's supporters are upset that he chose Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. They should not be surprised. He promised as a candidate...
Civic pride in public shame
Ah, what a gift the media give us to see ourselves as others see us. With President-elect Barack Obama's victory, Chicago was being portrayed as a world-class model of political...
Jackson Jr.’s entanglement
The year's not over, but I think my first annual Basket Crab Award can safely be awarded to Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The prize, which I just made up, is awarded...
Blagojevich, Obama: Parallel worlds
A network news producer based in New York wanted to get my reaction to the arrest of Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Except she had a problem. She was reading the criminal...
Gay pride, black prejudice
"Gay is the new black," declares the Dec. 16 issue of The Advocate, a leading gay-oriented magazine. Well, not quite. How about, "Gay is the new gray?" The gray area...
Obama takes leftists’ fire
You can't please everybody in politics. You can't even please your fans all of the time. Remember when President-elect Barack Obama was battling opposition to his promise of "change"? That...
Obama and his BlackBerry blues
It has not taken President-elect Barack Obama long to learn what his predecessors quickly discovered: His new job is a gilded cage. Or, as Harry Truman nicknamed the White House...
Obama’s pop culture impact
Washington and Wall Street are not the only power centers wondering what kind of change President-elect Barack Obama is going to bring about. Hollywood moguls are sitting on the edge...