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  ABC’s Good Morning America interviewed 4 of Sarah Palin’s friends, part of  a group known as the Elite 6, who bonded with Palin over workouts and chocolate and have been friends for 15 years. Of the 4 friends interviewed only one said she would vote for her. The others disagreed with her over issues […]

  Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally slated to attend, and speak, at the Republican National Convention but ultimately declined. He was one in a line of several high-profile GOP members who opted out of the RNC this year, including incumbent Vice President, Dick Cheney. The speech intended for Schwarzenegger was then given to actor and […]

Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally slated to attend, and speak, at the Republican National Convention but ultimately declined. He was one in a line of several high-profile GOP members who opted out of the RNC this year, including incumbent Vice President, Dick Cheney. The speech intended for Schwarzenegger was then given to actor and former […]

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Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.

With the inclusion of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin on the Republican Presidential ticket and Barack Obama’s equally historic emergence as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party, both national conventions took on a larger than life quality. Now that the battle lines are fully drawn—celebrated veteran vs. upstart elitist; small town values vs. a cosmopolitan sophistication—it remains […]

It’s fascinating—and disturbing, and farcical—to watch the Republican lines of attack against Senator Obama proliferate. Some are sure to resonate with voters. But because the GOP and its surrogates appear unsure which, they continue to brand the senator with a variety of mutually exclusive labels.

What would Charles James think of the events in St. Paul last week? In 1902, the president of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union, Charles James was elected head of the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly. That year, the Assembly hosted the annual Labor Day parade, and James, an African American man, led thirty […]

  Blacks are scarce here at the Republican National Convention.   Of the more than 2,300 Republican delegates who gathered this week, just 36 — or 1.5% — were black, the lowest portion in 40 years, according to a study by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington think tank that focuses […]

My mother calls from Kolkata, India. She is still thinking about Michelle Obama’s speech. She says on the answering machine, “I’m for Obama all the way.” My two little girls march around the house chanting “Obama, Obama.” They picked it up from the will.i.am song. My pothead friend says, “I’m for Obama because he said […]

I know the National Enquirer might not carry the same weight as the New York Times. But in terms of political sex scandals they have a good track record. Let’s remember that they broke the John Edwards Affair. They were also one of the media’s main sources for the Clinton/Lewinsky Affair According to The Enquirer, […]

  The media has played Third Party in Election ’08 better than any Ralph Nader or Ron Paul ever could. Sometimes, it’s a great help, like when reporters stop gushing over a candidate’s appearance long enough to ask pressing questions. More often than not, some complex issue gets flattened into a fury of sound bites, […]