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Mitt Romney with VP pick Paul Ryan in tow picked their joint campaign starting point and their audience deliberately. A battleship draped in red, white and blue in Norfolk, Virginia. The lily white audience cheered as Romney and Ryan punched coded themes of out of control, spend thrift and bloated government.

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Rev. William Owens is banking that anti-gay marriage sentiment among blacks is so strong that it will put a crimp in President Barack Obama’s near solid black voter support. He’s founded a group called the Coalition of African-American Pastors and he and his undetermined sized group are so confident that…

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Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers raised eyebrows when she told reporters that convicting alleged Batman mass shooter James Holmes is not a “slam dunk.” She raised even more eyebrows when she said that she would take weeks to decide whether to seek the death penalty against Holmes.

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Wealthy Americans are amply represented among the off shore tax evaders. This money could bankroll business start ups, business expansion, fatten federal and state tax revenues, and create thousands of new jobs. This would do much to blunt the steady march upwards of those that slip into the poverty ranks.

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Bill Maher drew the ire of comedian Wayne Brady recently by comparing President Obama to him in a less-than favorable way. Describing the aggressive, angry black man that he’d hoped President Obama might be, Maher restarted the white man’s version of the “black enough” debate…

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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has managed an incredible feat. In a Google search of millions of references of his campaign speeches, interviews, and his writings, I could not find a single word that he has written or spoken about the greatest economic crisis that faces any of the nation’s voter constituencies.

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Every Democratic or Republican president or presidential candidate since 1920 has either directly addressed the NAACP annual convention or sent a warm message. The ritual is even more imperative for the nation’s top politicians to follow during a presidential election year.

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I kind of knew that I was going to wind up writing a piece on the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling upholding the individual mandate of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Health Insurance plan. Why? I guess it’s because, as they say in trailers for revenge movies, this time, it’s personal.

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Less than two weeks before his death, I was scheduled to interview Rodney King on the public stage at the annual Leimert Park Book Fair in Los Angeles. I had two conflicting thoughts about the interview. One was that if the well-worn term, accident of history, ever applied to anyone, it was King.

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The racial pillorying of First Lady Michelle Obama was bad enough. The occasional snide digs and ugly depictions of President Obama’s daughters were even more despicable. But now the presidential family’s pet Portuguese Water Dog, Bo, has taken heat.

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