We've come to expect a certain amount of raw "manliness" from our American Presidents, but George W. Bush may have been the straw that broke the proverbially camel's back on the importance of that particular skillset. What is a President if he -- and invariably it has always been a...

Did Uganda have a space program? As someone born in the country during the tyranny of Idi Amin, I cannot put anything beyond Idi Amin's Daffy Duck logic, but I cannot remember any "Space Program." The so-called "Last King of Scotland, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth...

Wouldn't you have liked to have been a fly on the wall during the conversation at the Beijing Olympics between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Bush? While the specifics of the conversation remains tightly held between the two world leaders, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave a...

CBS' Bob Schieffer, talking about the historic nature of this Democrat National Convention to African-Americans on the Imus in the Morning Show, relayed an interesting tidbit about Bill Richardson and his former boss, Bill Clinton. You will recall that the 42nd President -- via surrogate James Carville --...

Perhaps not enough has been made of race factor in this election by the poobah's in The Chattering Classes (although some might argue otherwise). The cable TV newsers in particular have apparently bought in to that whole Pat Buchanan narrative that it is fear of the different -- those...

This blogger, sickened by Rush Limbaugh's noxious "Operation: Chaos," which may or may not have influenced the Texas primary (and quite possibly Ohio and Indiana) in favor of Senator Clinton -- and thus lengthening the Democratic primary process -- is fed up. We're mad as hell and not...

Jim Ward is the founder and President of Americans with Disability Act Watch and the National Coalition for Disability Rights. On July 26th, which should have been a day of celebration as it marks the 18th anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act, Ward had to deal with the fallout...

Let's face it: Al Gore was right about a great many things. Specifically, the former Vice President of the United States criticized America's overheated media coverage of "celebutards" as a national distraction. The fact that this criticism was coming from a man who gave up the presidency and founded a...