Time for Obama to change the game
Unemployment has risen to its highest level in five years. Uninsured Americans top 47 million. Since 2000, real wages have fallen for every educational group in America except for those...
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Palin boost could backfire on McCain
Does Sen. John McCain have a pit bull with lipstick by the tail? If the Republican presidential nominee seems to have an extra spring in his step and twinkle in...
Get ready for the real fireworks
The Republican Party's presidential nominee gave a nice, but not terribly memorable acceptance speech. He was upstaged at his own convention by another speech, a stirring address that propelled a...
‘Third-rate sexist’ makes confession
I'm in trouble already. On a national television talk show I referred to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain's choice to be his running mate, as a nice "young...
Does experience matter anymore?
Let's hear it for youth and inexperience. After choosing little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, it's going to be a little hard for Sen. John McCain...
Does King + 45 = Obama?
On a hot August day in 1963, I sat cross-legged on my parents' living room rug in southern Ohio to watch Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. make history. His "I...
McCain goes for the mud
I once heard of a man so rich he didn't know his kids were in college. The story was a joke. But Sen. John McCain, Republican presidential nominee-to-be, brought it...
Helping boys minus any harm to girls
Remember back in the old days when we used to fret about how girls weren't doing as well as guys in school, especially in math and science? Ah, that seems...
Obama vs. the lunatic fringe
So you think the chorus of white hate groups is seething with rage that Barack Obama could become president? Think again. Members of the knuckle-dragging set are taking a rosier...
Enquirer scores– but about the aliens
Among former Sen. John Edwards' other sins against humanity, add this one: He helped the National Enquirer gain more credibility than any supermarket tabloid deserves. The blogosphere is abuzz with...