It’s no secret that the black church is more outspoken than say, my regular Sunday Catholic church service. I suppose we should give credit to the Rev. Wright controversy for that heightened realization (although I gather most people presumed this long before that YouTube clip hit every media outlet this side of the Milky [...]

The most frustrating aspect of Saturday’s cyclone in Burma, which left 22,500 dead and 41,000 missing, is all the ways the junta running the country makes the relief process more difficult.
UN relief workers are ready and willing to bring aid and medicine into the country. But the Burmese government hasn’t yet issued them visas. Foreign [...]

It’s hard to believe Sen. Hillary Clinton was ever honored to share a stage with her rival Sen. Barack Obama after seeing her latest last minute ad slamming Obama’s criticism of the much-ballyhooed gas-tax holiday.
But first—a word of praise. We’re actually talking about an issue. Gas taxes have never been so refreshing!
We’re talking about an [...]

Last week saw the continued brow-beating of the American people with Jeremiah Wright overkill. The first 16 minutes of Meet the Press were devoted to it. CNN, FoxNews, and the whole lot continue to replay the YouTube clips. I’ve even seen some ridiculous implications in the more whacked-out portions of [...]

Against the cold, scientific glow of an unlikely, biology-inspired observation, I wonder, is this what we have been reduced to?
A New York Times/CBS News poll conducted from Friday to Tuesday- right in the thick of the latest Jeremiah Wright flap- indicates that only 51% of Democrats believe Obama will win his party’s nomination, down from [...]