Commentary

A&E certainly knows how to work both sides of the street with “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson. When Robertson popped off with his by now well-known slurs against gays and blacks A&E feigned righteous indignation and pulled the show. But, did it?

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The U.S. government’s ambivalence about Nelson Mandela again stood in sharp focus in the hours immediately after the global icon’s death. Former Vice President Dick Cheney was blunt. He said that he did not regret his no vote as a GOP congressman in 1986 on a bill that called for the release Mandela…

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For the “Beyonce’ is a feminist” camp, her new music is a feminist manifesto because it shows a woman who is using her ability to make her own choices to be a performer, a wife, a mother, and in the case of the song “Partition”, a woman who is willing to let her man get it a little messy in the back of the limo.

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There’s a saying: The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend. That saying has played a pretty large part in the foreign policy of the United States since, well, forever. It’s expected that if you’re going to be a friend of ours, you also have to be an enemy to our enemies.

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I had an extensive conversation last week with a prominent Republican political operative about next year’s congressional elections. This operative is one of the godfathers of Republican politics and has played at the highest level for more than 30 years.

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Matt Barnes recently typed the racial epithet on his Twitter account. “The word I used is a word that’s used on the court, is used in the locker room, is used by most of my friends and family,” Barnes explained, adding that “It’s like saying ‘Bro.’ That’s just how we address people now.”

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There’s been as much myth as fact regarding John F. Kennedy’s civil rights legacy in the more than 50 years before, during and especially after his assassination on November 22, 1963. In the days before he delivered his now famed presidential inaugural address on Friday, January 20, 1961…

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The strike of football players at legendary Grambling State University received attention across the world. GSU President Frank Pogue praised the players for providing the “creative tension” needed to bring attention to the plight of Grambling and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in general.

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The old saw that you can’t live with them and you can’t live without them may apply more aptly to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie than to husbands and wives. The “them” in Christie’s case is the Tea Party. Christie so far has made all the right moves in his march toward the GOP presidential nomination.

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The GOP-controlled House Ways and Means is the first of the three GOP congressional committees “investigating” Obamacare to try and pulverize it — again. GOP committee members pounded hard on the stock GOP hit points; it’s a mess because…

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