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Oprah is easily the most influential television personality in America, if not the world. Nothing demonstrates her influence more than her ability to flak obscure and often mediocre books into national best sellers. What kept Oprah soaring beyond the firmament of other meteoric stars, however, was the fact that her celebrity seemed completely immune to… Read more.
Marion Barry is back on crack Marion Barry violated the terms of his probation by testing positive for cocaine. But nobody should be surprised. Because Barry was just doing what junkies do. I expressed utter contempt when he began posturing as a “born-again” politician. And I was dismayed that so many people, especially Blacks, thought… Read more.
Like Noah parting the Red Sea, snow ploughers in Japan parted 13 feet of snow to create this surreal path from their home I prayed for snowfall in Washington over the New Year holiday because I had elaborate plans to entertain nieces and nephews from the Caribbean who had never frolicked in snow. Regrettably, not… Read more.
If you bought the hype from Democrats about how they’re going to expose Judge Alito as a genial racist and devout misogynist, then you’re going to be sorely disappointed by Senate hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court. After all, you’ll probably be watching with baited breath to hear Delphic explanations from Alito about… Read more.
I know this scandal is very inside Washington (and doesn’t even involve any sex!). But the fall of Tom DeLay is worthy of comment, if only for its schadenfreude appeal. The other shoe has finally dropped on Republican Congressman Tom DeLay of Texas. A few months ago, his indictment on campaign fraud charges forced him… Read more.
And you’ll never find another voice like his again – no matter where you search… Granted, he’d probably prefer to be remembered for his charitable contributions to the United Negro College Fund. Brain and lung cancer silenced his smooth-as-silk voice yesterday at the age of 72. Click here for his professional bio and here for… Read more.
Given the media’s 24/7 obsession with “BREAKING NEWS”, I was not at all surprised when egregiously inaccurate reporting added insult to the tragedy of mining families whose loved ones were trapped in that West Virginia coal mine this week. But if media hounds could not be bothered to check their facts on this story –… Read more.
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, a time to build up…A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace…[But above all else]…a time… Read more.
Washington insiders are still hyperventilating over the plea agreement über lobbyist Jack Abramoff executed on Tuesday with federal prosecutors. But I’m just stupefied by the misleading commentaries on this story – especially by Democrats who smell the blood of wounded Republicans. Notwithstanding the 24/7 coverage, the facts of this case are as familiar as they… Read more.
Taylor Branch is the critically acclaimed biographer of Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK). At Canaan’s Edge is the third volume of his MLK trilogy. But it’s generating hype for portraying MLK as a womanizer more than a civil rights leader. Jon Meacham is Newsweek’s eminent historian. On Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press, he recommended… Read more.
