Op-Ed

President Obama’s speech to the Congressional Black Caucus’ annual meeting this past weekend shouldn’t have even been news. As a whole, it was unremarkable. He offered up his now-standard …

Washington - Why hasn't there been a tea party on the left? And can President Obama and the American left develop a functional relationship? That those two …

At first blush, you might think that “Dave's Hot 'N Juicy” is the title of a pornographic movie. Actually, it's only a hamburger. Well, not just any …

For my daughter’s benefit, so that she might know the enemy better, know what he looks like, where he nests, and when and where to throw eggs at his …

Thousands rally to defend worker rights in Wisconsin, then nearly a million force a referendum in Ohio to repeal a similar assault. Tens of thousands fill congressional town meetings …

The Reverend Al Sharpton and various labor unions have announced a March for Jobs. But I’m afraid we’ll need more than marches to get jobs back. Since …

North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue at a highway dedication, September 26, 2011. Perdue set off a firestorm of criticism with comments to a Rotary Club meeting suggesting "...we ought …

Today’s American Right is fond of pushing the idea of “originalist” thinking by the Founders to rally opposition to government initiatives that address modern-day problems. The claim is that …

It has become a truism that modern American conservatism is revolutionary in the sense that it seeks to overturn the established order rather than to preserve it. “Reagan Revolution,” …

(Photo: Wikimedia) In a soon-to-be published book entitled Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiments with Truth, Jim Douglass contrasts the deadly machinations of Gandhi's probable killers …