Obama's Explanation Won't Fly in Long Run

Posted: 21 Mar 2008 01:44 AM CDT

In his hour of political need, Barack Obama went to his base -- the media. He delivered a speech about the nation's racial divisions that couldn't possibly get anything but lavish praise from the...

The Bailout Briar Patch

Posted: 21 Mar 2008 01:37 AM CDT

One problem with rolling is that it can be hard to stop. That's the Bush administration's challenge, as congressional Democrats try to flip it into another economic intervention -- this one a giant...

The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud

Posted: 21 Mar 2008 01:00 AM CDT

WASHINGTON -- The beauty of a speech is that you don't just give the answers, you provide your own questions. "Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in...

Another Angry Black Preacher

Posted: 21 Mar 2008 01:00 AM CDT

WASHINGTON -- Let's ask the hard question about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Is he as far outside the African-American mainstream as many of us would like to think? Because Barack Obama's speech...

A Brief For Whitey

Posted: 21 Mar 2008 01:00 AM CDT

How would he pull it off? I wondered. How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against...

The Reason for God

Posted: 21 Mar 2008 01:00 AM CDT

WASHINGTON -- In a flood of best-sellers by skeptics and atheists charging a nonexistent God with crimes against humanity, Timothy Keller stands out as an effective counterpoint and a defender of the...

The Crapshoot of Presidential Politics

Posted: 20 Mar 2008 05:00 PM CDT

This week's detour into the murk of racial politics underlines that it's going to be a long, hard slog on the Democratic side. The next opportunity for Democrats to resolve their deadlock will come...