Ari Fleischer spun a war. What’s a golf superstar to him? Two sources in the golf community have told The Post that Ari Fleischer, the former presidential advisor to George W. Bush and the man who was brought in to help repair the steroid-shattered image of Mark McGwire, has been huddling with Woods, plotting a…

Will Dick Durbin prove able to bridge the gap in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine? Adam Serwer of The American Prospect certainly hopes so because, he says, it is one that must be mended. An excerpt The sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine is a national disgrace. Both President Barack Obama and Attorney…

Juanita Goggins, the first Black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature, was found alone in her home, having apparently died of hypothermia. Goggins, the youngest of 10 children, grew up the daughter of a sharecropper in rural Anderson County, about 100 miles northwest of the capital. She was the only sibling to earn a…

Underground Railroad expert Charles L. Blockson has donated some items from its most famous conductor On a blue-covered table in a Capitol Hill hearing room, an ordinary hymnal was raised to the status of a historical object with the simple signature of its owner, Harriet Tubman Davis. The book of gospel hymns was among an…

We’re not mad. Honestly. It’s just…right or wrong, a seasoned veteran should have seen this coming from a mile away Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather put his foot in his mouth during an appearance on the Chris Matthews Show, when, in describing the Republicans’ view of Barack Obama‘s ability to get the health…

Chuck Norris, as you’ve seen in his films, is a defender of freedom Actor and political activist Chuck Norris told the Alex Jones Show yesterday that President Obama should be impeached if he attempts to implement the Copenhagen agreement without Congressional approval. The martial artist also warned that Obama may attempt to cancel the 2012…

Power Couple Alert! Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson weds DC school chancellor Michelle Rhee For months, Kevin Johnson walked around with an engagement ring wrapped in tissue. He wanted a sweet movielike moment to give it to his Michelle. He and Michelle Rhee were in Seattle together, but the timing felt off. On another day in…

A colleague sent this along. Amid the constant squabbles, this is a pretty neat story Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher of New Bern, N.C., hold the world record for life in wedded bliss: 85 years. He’s 104, and she’s 101. On their May 13 anniversary, they will join an elite club: the longest marriages on record.…

The US military is sending troops to Somalia to fight the rebels there. US is providing military assistance to Somali government in order to retake capital Mogadishu from Somali fighters, a recent report in The New York Times indicates. The American military is conducting nighttime surveillance in the Al-Shabab-controlled areas of the capital and training…

The Root contributor Michael Arceneaux was not exactly impressed with the Freaknik musical There’s the usual band of suspects: Bitches, hoes, niggas, corny white people, references to one mystical all-controlling white man, along with the bougie black brigade who won’t let anyone have any non-uplifting fun. I imagine this show would like to guise itself…