The source of the firestorm over the mosque at Ground Zero, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, could have located his mosque in New York anywhere he liked if he had not fixated on the spot two blocks north of...
Bush had it right on Islam after 9/11 Just days after the Twin Towers were destroyed in 2001, President George W. Bush set the tone that ought to govern U.S. attitudes in the New York mosque controversy today. While visiting the Islam...
Forget the two Georgias, let’s solve our problems EVERY TWO YEARS , around election time, the old one Georgia/two Georgias discussion flares up. It is political shorthand for candidates seeking top statewide office insisting to voters that th...
Who defines Obama? Liberal critics were dead wrong in condemning Glenn Beck for holding a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech. Nobod...
Burning question: Extremists on 9/11 In case you missed some of the lowlights of the 20th century, one charismatic pastor from Florida is trying to bring them back. Yes, Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville is planning a Koran burning f...
Beck's politi ... religious rally nothing new Here we go again. A self-promoting TV evangelist has summoned yet another gullible throng to a Washington pep rally/prayer meeting, and everybody’s expected to ponder its vast significance. ...
For Obamacare supporters, judgment day approaches Say you’re a Democratic member of Congress. You proudly cast your vote for Obamacare, you cheered when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed it as the achievement of a generation, and you scoffe...
Beckapalooza Despite all the words spilled in evaluating Glenn Beck’s tent-less revival last weekend, the real meaning may have been hiding in plain sight. Beck’s “Restoring Honor” gathering on the National M...
The mosque controversy The proposed mosque near where the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed, along with thousands of American lives, would be a 15-story middle finger to America. It takes a high IQ to evade...
The MSNBC documentary series "Lock Up" ran a story earlier this month about a Maricopa County Jail inmate charged with identity theft named Cecil Kunkel. The 29-year-old Kunkel has a swastika tatto...
August finally redeemed itself from shark-jumping hysteria with an original, spontaneous, transcendent event -- the accidental intersection of one Antoine Dodson, his sister, her would-be rapist, a...
BLITHERING IDIOTS and outright liars are increasingly dominating and directing entirely too many debates on the national scene. All one has to do at the moment is simply say a single word — “mosque...
THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE Chase, also known as Andrews’ Raid, was a military foray that occurred during the Civil War on April 12, 1862, with all events unfolding between present-day Kennesaw to a point...
The addition of ethanol to gasoline has now become so prevalent that 100 percent gasoline is almost a thing of the past. But is this always a good thing? Supporters contend that ethanol is the way ...
Whenever an African-American would cut in front of an old friend of mine, my friend would exclaim, “Stupid...” and I will let you finish the rest. I’m not usually argumentative but on this subject ...
I like to plan. Planning for any kind of catastrophe makes me feel prepared. My husband George will lovingly tease me about having back-up plans for my back-up plans. A few weeks ago, I didn’t pla...
Methodical. Meticulous. Thorough. Those were three words that came to mind after reading U.S. District Judge William T. Moore's lengthy, heavily-footnoted ruling in the Troy Anthony Davis saga Tue...
JOHN BOYD JR. has had it. Mr. Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, has worked for the past quarter-century to win some semblance of justice for African American farmers, who for decades were denied government loans because of the color of their skin. Yet something goes wrong...
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency is asking for comments on its proposed new gas mileage stickers for automobiles -- so here's ours. On the whole, both of the agency's two suggested alternative stickers represent much-needed improvement over current fuel-economy labeling. They more clearly and...
DEL. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) is faulted by her opponent in the Sept. 14 primary for not being able to deliver voting rights to the city. This failure, even with solid Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, is why challenger Douglass Sloan thinks that she should be replaced. That...
ENDANGERED Democrats beseech President Obama to focus on the problems at home. Republicans smelling blood attack him if he talks about anything but the recession. His own aides promise, from time to time, that his mission will consist of "jobs, jobs, jobs."