Barack Obama belongs to an unabashedly Black African-centered church. Its teachings focus on a “black value” system. It has knowledgeable Americans questioning how Obama’s church (Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ) and its pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr. influence the man who wants to be President of the United States.
Why couldn’t Obama have chosen […]

Conservatives are losing the war for a sustainable and impactful voice in the new media
That is not to say it is lost, far from it; But the winds of a truly free, fair and open media environment are not blowing so swiftly anymore and I fear that too many of us are just sitting back […]

In 1959, six months before I graduated from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fidel Castro came to power in a coup that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. It was big news on campus though I must confess that I knew next-to-nothing about Castro.
The New York Times reporting had failed to mention Castro was a […]

It is getting tiresome already, but we are starting to see a new kind of story on this issue of McCain and his tiff with the conservative wing of the GOP and that is the shut-up-and-take-it style of commentary, the style were conservatives are told to throw away their principles and just vote McCain […]

In 1988, then Vice President George H.W. Bush was said to be running for a third Reagan term. The point was well taken. Reagan had indeed been the most popular president in decades. His first election in 1980 had been a crushing defeat for incumbent Jimmy Carter. His re-election in 1984 was a landslide that […]