A WORLD APART: EMINEM AND ME
I did not have to read the Federal Trade Commission's new report to know that the entertainment industry has been promoting unsuitable material to kids. My kid, in so many...
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AMERICA’S WORST INNER ENEMY: FEAR
It is not easy to find words to describe the government's case against Wen Ho Lee, but "stupid" comes to mind. While the 60-year-old nuclear scientist cooled his heels in...
AMERICA IS GOING BEIGE
America's racial and ethnic future is in California today. That's the easiest conclusion to draw from new Census Bureau population estimates. Minorities are now the majority in California and will...
VOUCHERS DON’T PASS TEST
"Praise God." Say what? Yes, "Praise God." That's what the Rev. Jesse Jackson said when conservative commentator George Will asked him on ABC's "This Week" what he thought of a...
BACK TO THE CITY: REVERSING `WHITE FLIGHT’
"Chocolate City," as black music artist George Clinton famously nicknamed the District of Columbia 30 years ago, is getting more vanilla. That was the big page-one story in the nation's...
HEAVEN HELP US
Reporters, like good detectives, should never presume too much. I have just spotted a good example of one reporter who did. The presumption appears in a story about the latest...
THAT KISS
Ah, yes, the Kiss. That's the way the media have been referring to the lip-lock Vice President Al Gore laid on his wife Tipper during the Democratic National Convention. I...
SELLING OUT? NO, JUST BUYING IN
Today's insight into modern human political nature comes to us courtesy of a young driver for CNN at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. He called himself "Fred." I...
IS IT THE TICKET?
By the time Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman finished meeting with black delegates at the Democratic National Convention, black anti-Semitism appeared to be the least of the Gore-Lieberman ticket's...
SURPRISE `BUNNY’ ATTACK
Behind the smiley-faced unity shown by television cameras, the Democratic National Convention opened amid deep divisions over a very sensitive issue. No, it was not the drug war, housing the...