"I don’t want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money!" --Rick Santorum Privilege has been called an invisible knapsack, a bundle of advantages enjoyed by beneficiaries who rarely recognize it as such. … [Read more...]

Hoping to be saved by disaster... Senator Scott Brown, citing the danger posed by Hurricane Sandy, has pulled out of his fourth and final debate with Elizabeth Warren, which was scheduled to take place on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Boston. “It … [Read more...]

“There is absolutely zero connection between policy and fund-raising. To insinuate otherwise is just plain wrong.’’ --Scott Brown spokeswoman I may be wrong, but I don't believe Scott Brown will dwell on the heritage question at … [Read more...]

The media has a hard time reporting on data. They often don't know what it means or how significant it is. Blame them for people taking Vitamin E because there was research that said it was good for you, until there was research showing too … [Read more...]

The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), according to its website, "is the oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities." … [Read more...]

It’s interesting watching reactions to the strike of the Chicago Teacher’s Union (CTU). Our society is so divorced from labor issues, most of the media is at a loss. In its pre-mature editorial on the strike, The New York Times, in very … [Read more...]

Maryland House of Delegates Member Emmett C. Burns is hardly a poster child for the American Right. He's African American. And he's a Democrat. He's also a Baptist minister who "introduced House Bill 90 to invalidate marriages between … [Read more...]

The number of legitimate voters flagged in the voter purges has dwarfed the number of suspected non-eligible voters in both Florida and Texas. A federal court struck down Texas's voter ID law saying that it "would have a 'retrogressive … [Read more...]

"Even the Bush Justice Department filed suit to enforce this provision of that law. For Brown to claim this is some kind of plot against him is just bizarre." --Mindy Myers John McCain. Centrist. Maverick. Sunday morning talking heads. … [Read more...]

My family ran a successful business for 100 years. My great grandfather Napoleon Bail, an immigrant from Quebec, arrived in the United States in 1872 at the age of six, and by his twenties, had started what would become Napoleon Bail Shoe … [Read more...]