A political ad aired by the National Republican Congressional Committee is being called out by many as racist. The ad, which has political circles buzzing and has gone viral, with more than 150,000 views on YouTube, has political observers pointing out that it’s effectively a duplicate of the infamous Willie Horton spot from 1988. That ad was…

Campaigning for president in 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama said: “Affordable, universal health care for every single American must not be a question of whether, it must be a question of how.” What followed three years later? Scary claims from Republicans of “death panels,” “socialized medicine” and “government takeovers” of health care. And in 2009, health…