Jeremiah Wright

Obama 'Race Video' Touted as October Surprise Could Be About L.A. Riots, Katrina

Updated at the bottom: The Daily Caller posted the video, posted below. Today the site Daily Caller has been teasing video of a Barack Obama "race speech" that some in the rightblogger world have been touting as an "October surprise" that could upend a so-far uneven match between the president and ... More >>

Grumbling Continues Over Obama Bypass of Villaraigosa Aide

Yesterday the National Council of La Raza issued a statement expressing approval of a meeting between President Obama and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which NCLR president Janet Murguía called "a step in the right direction toward immigration reform." The group's previous statement, issued Mo ... More >>

Cliche Watch

Among the hundreds of times the expression "Chickens have come home to roost" appeared in American newspapers this year, the following subject categories, gleaned through a Nexis-Lexis search, caught our attention. Government: 236 timesRepublican Party: 51Bailouts: 34Islam: 6Immigration: 5OJ Simpso ... More >>

Election '08: The Night Before Christmas

I have a special guest blogger today. His name is Justin Warfield. You may know him as the frontman and songwriter for the great band She Wants Revenge. He's a very cool guy who has an interesting and emotional take on this election. His post is below. Also, here's a link to my piece on socialism, o ... More >>

Election '08: The Palin Power Girls

Election '08: Who Change What?

According to their new campaign ads, McCain and Palin, or, rather Palin and McCain are the new mavericks, the real agents of change. They'll clean up Washington with their maverick ways and outsider approaches. Uh huh. But they're no agents of change. Rather, they're alchemists, turning their hist ... More >>

Election '08: Beyond The Palin

As I was talking to the editor of the LA Weekly this morning about Sarah Palin, I said that I hoped the American people were smart enough to see through this bit of Karl Rove-ian evil genius. Just as I said it, a Ford van, jacked up to monster truck proportions, powered by a 345 horsepower V-8, went ... More >>

Clinton Defeats Clinton: After North Carolina and Indiana, a Postmortem on Hillary's Campaign

It's all over now, Baby Blue, as Barack Obama wins the presidential nomination for the third or fourth time

Off-White Like Me

Biracial? Tell it to the hosts of Fox and Friends. Obama is black.

The O-boomers

Even hardened veterans of the '60s have to hand it to Obama

Barack Obama and the Company We Keep

Many blacks have a Jeremiah Wright in their past ... and are better men for it