Chocolate vs. Vanilla

Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu (pictured above) is expected to run for Mayor of New Orleans. Although this may upset the old order of New Orleans, which was mostly black until Katrina struck, the city has a habit of electing people from the same family. It elected two members of the Morial family and [...]

Deval Patrick Runs for Governor of Mass.

“As Deval Patrick crisscrosses Massachusetts in his quest to become the state’s next governor, an interested observer sits 450 miles to the south, wondering if history can repeat itself. Barack Obama stunned the political establishment in 2004 by becoming the first black man from Illinois to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. This fall, [...]

The Iran Issue

Over the past year or so, it’s become the consensus of TV talking heads–and thus repeated around the water cooler throughout the country–that Iran is a grave threat to the United States. How many times have I heard some nitwit shout, “Iran’s the real problem!,” as if Iraq isn’t an unmitigated disaster. The IAEA [...]