Commentary

The speech was less of a presidential annual report card on the shape of the nation and his administration, than a treatise on what the Obama administration will do to create the one thing that the administration has been roundly raked over the coals for…

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Conservative political consultant Michael Reagan added his unabashed and wildly inaccurate historical revisionism about Reagan with his absolutely ridiculous assertion in a Fox News op-ed piece that dad, Reagan was a “better friend of blacks” than President Obama.

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Last Monday, I got up to my regular routine, cursing the alarm clock for pulling me out of my comfortable slumber, Joyce flicking on the TV to the BBC morning news to check whether or not the Tube was running without any major disruptions, and then…

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NAACP President Ben Jealous called Mississippi governor Haley Barbour “a shining example” of a governor following his approving the release of Jamie and Gladys Scott.

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In America, Assange has been universally vilified, cast in standard ‘Palin-ist’ malaprop-speak—and repeated by some of my own friends back home who ought to know better—as ‘treasonous’ (Duh. Treason only applies to one who betrays his own country. Assange’s an Aussie.).

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They include saber rattling of a Senate filibuster, screams for everyone from defeated Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold to Hillary Clinton to challenge Obama in the Democratic primary, polls on left blogs and websites running heavily against him seeking re-election…

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But one of my favorite panels was one in which a man was standing in front of two doors. One said “damned if you do” the other said “damned if you don’t.” Standing next to him was the Devil who was screaming, “Pick one!”

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Politics does, indeed, make strange bedfellows. How else to characterize one of Congress’s loudest, most outspoken ultraconservatives, Rep. Peter King of New York, protesting the House vote to censure Harlem congressman Charles Rangel, an African-American, a Democrat…

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must explain what she meant when she allegedly signed the much railed at orders in April and July 2009 that allege that she ordered US diplomats to spy on UN officials and others. But that hasn´t stopped the rush to judgment in the calls for her resignation.

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Not surprisingly the always dependable controversial quotable especially when it come to knocking President Barack Obama Democratic strategist James Carville was petulant and defiant when asked whether he’d apologize for his latest Obama wisecrack.

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