Karl Rove says Barack Obama is arrogant.

We've heard that; we've heard the pejorative "arrogant" before. When I say "we" I mean those of us who are "others" in America; people of color. Minorities. Women. We hear the word all the time from a select section of privileged white...

"Obama's Baby Mama?" The pound she shared with her husband that was really a "terrorist fist jab?" When she thinks nobody's listening she loves to use the pejorative "whitey?" C'mon, do the Reactionary Regressives really want to shape the campaign on demonizing Barack Obama's wife Michelle?

They might as...

On the eve of an historic transformation of the American social landscape -- one hurdle down, one to go -- it's still curious to me how the Democratic primary allowed itself to devolve into such purely puerile race and gender baiting.

Sorta curious. Sure, much of the Democratic Party...

This week comes word that some child welfare groups are calling for changes in federal transracial adoption laws; that the so-called colorblind adoption system mandated in the Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA) of 1994 can do more harm than good to black kids adopted from foster care by white parents....

From the beginning it's been fairly clear a big chunk of supposedly liberal America hasn't been ready for Barack Obama. Their unease obvious in the shock and awe of Joe Biden, and in Newsweek's inane, aloud wonderings of whether or not Obama was "black enough." "Black enough" for the...

The sideshow of the '08 primary campaign has been the endless media vivisection of how each subset of the electorate has broken for a particular candidate. The urban vote. The second generation Hispanic vote. The rural white vote with non-secondary education. How are older Catholic women voting?

The numbers...

Not that she doesn't have her charms. I'm sure. But for a reporter Ms. Walters seems to have a bit of trouble with that whole confidentiality thing. At least with regard to hot, extra-marital, interracial affairs.

Apparently, way back in the '70s, the many-times divorced Walters was having a...

Bill Moyers is broadcasting a siddown with Barack Obama's "controversial" pastor Jeremiah Wright this Friday evening, April 25th. By Saturday expect every utterance Pastor Wright makes to be as picked over as an episode of Lost at the San Diego Comicon.

Now, I'm not going to even try to...

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to ABC's Pennsylvania Democratic debate

Jeremiah Wright nontroversy? Not a problem.

Bitter clingy blue collar types, flag lapel pins? He can navigate those annoyances with ease.

But come November the Bill Ayers issue rushing up in Barack Obama's rear...

It's one of those weeks where you should be happy to be you. Cause you could be this guy. Or you could be one of the thousands of displaced refugees formally known as American Airlines passengers.

As a (too) frequent flier of AA myself -- way to go three-for-three trips...

While the Democrats publicly grapple with their own faux liberalism -- who's a "lucky" black man and what's a "typical" white person -- researchers at Yale university would have you believe there is another, insidious "ism" that is even more widespread than racism, sexism and age bias.

They call it...

Five years. Nearly four thousand American lives. Perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead. Half a trillion dollars spent and we're still rolling up the tab.

How do you mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq? President Bush and Vice-President Cheney were a contrast in styles.

Okay, here's what we know: Barack Obama thinks of Rev. Jeremiah Wright of the Trinity Christ United Church on Chicago's south side as his old uncle who says things I don't always agree with. We know that Obama has busted his public ties with Wright, both rejecting and...

The punch line to some old, racist joke roughly goes: "they all look alike to me." The set up to the joke was rewritten by this past weekend by Congressman Steve King - (R) Iowa. On some radio show King claimed that were Barack Obama to be elected president Al-Qaeda...

It spawned the famous -- infamous? -- line: Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal. Its true name was the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Most people know it as the Kerner Report -- so called because it was chaired by...

It began as the non-troversy of the holiday shortened week: the accusation that Barack Obama had plagiarized part of a stump speech from Mass. Governor Deval Patrick

He hadn't. And even if he had lifted or borrowed or co-opted a couple of lines, does anybody really think the post-modern politician...

This just in: the New England Patriots are big fat cheats. No, seriously, they're really big fat cheats. Cause, apparently, this fetish they have for taping other teams signals wasn't limited to the Jets, or only this season. They've been up to their shenanigans since the turn of this century.

The off again/on again should-we-let-her-in Amy Winehouse visa saga is...on again! At the 11th hour the US embassy over in GB rubber stamped her so that Ms. Winehouse will - if she chooses - be able to participate in Sundays 50th Grammy ceremonies. There was no official word as to...

Rush Limbaugh grandly announced on his radio program that he might not support the Republican presidential nominee in this coming election cycle, as none pass his conservative litmus test.

Does anyone care?

I don't mean that as a snide aside. Even among staunch Republicans, does anyone really care...

If you were playing, say, Pai Gow poker in Vegas and you found a table where the dealer showed his cards before you set your hand, that's the table where you'd wanna put your taw into action. It's always better to know what's on the table rather than having to...