Politics

The Associated Press is reporting that President Barack Obama has not given up hope on his defeated jobs bill. President Obama will urge Congress to get to work this week on passing pieces of his larger, now-defunct jobs bill during a three-day bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia, two Southern states that could be…

A recent Senate vote may have blocked President Obama’s $447 billion American Jobs Act, but the fight is not over yet for the White House and congressional Democrats. They plan to salvage other parts of the plan by reintroducing them as smaller pieces of legislation. “Tonight’s vote is by no means the end of this…

In his Chicago Tribune column, Clarence Page says that the Tea Party appears to be delighted that their support for Herman Cain proves that they are not racist. Unfortunately, based on his language, Cain doesn’t seem to like black people much. It says a lot about America’s racial progress that the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO…

Over the years, I have had the privilege of being “in the room” with quite a number of amazing people. From presidents to philanthropists to ordinary folk who did extraordinary things, each has left an indelible mark on America’s history. But more important than how history views these individuals is the immeasurable contributions that many…

Close your eyes. Can you remember what you were doing in October of 1991? Zoom in on the crisp fall days of the Senate hearings when Anita Hill stood up and told her truth. Can you see it? I can. I was a senior at Yale, and I had a very cute boyfriend whom I…

MSNBC is reporting that an NBC/WSJ poll puts GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in the lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Mark Murphy reports that Cain’s popularity has been fueled by Tea Party supporters, conservatives and high-interest GOP primary voters.  Onetime front-runner Texas Gov. Rick Perry has plummeted to third place, dropping…

Michael A. Fletcher of the Washington Post is reporting that Herman Cain’s much hyped “9-9-9” tax plan will penalize low- and middle-income Americans. The plan would do away with much of the current tax code and impose a 9 percent personal income tax, a 9 percent business tax and a 9 percent national sales tax. Tax experts say…

Martin Luther King Jr. is a towering historical figure. For some, he is the greatest American ever to live. Most people in this country, regardless of their political affiliation, consider him to be an inspiration. This respect and admiration is quite different from the opposition he faced while he was alive, but it’s this posthumous…