Politics

Marilyn Davenport, the Southern California GOP official who sent an email depicting President Obama and his parents as chimpanzees, has finally issued an apology. But despite calls for her resignation by Republican County Chair Scott Baugh, former state Chair Michael J. Schroeder and a chorus of civil rights activists, Davenport defiantly vowed to remain in office. “To my fellow Americans…

Call it “America’s Next Top Extra”? A walk-on part in Steve Harvey’s upcoming movie, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, will go to the winners of Sony Picture’s Face of the Fan open-casting-call contest. The public gets to choose a male and a female for the roles, who we presume will act like…

First lady Michelle Obama was returning from New York Monday when her plane was forced to abort its landing at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland as a result of an air traffic controller’s mistake. The Boeing 737 came dangerously close to a 200-ton military cargo jet when it was told it could not land. Vice…

While wannabe Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is still fat-mouthing about how much richer than Mitt Romney he is, yet refusing to reveal his net worth until he officially declares his presidential bid, President Barack Obama has released his 2010 tax returns. EURweb is reporting that the tax returns show he and first lady Michelle…

One year after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Gulf Coast has dropped out of the headlines. As I was walking recently with a reporter along the beach of an eroding island in the vast Gulf of Mexico, the waters were as clear as the skies, leaving little evidence that the nation’s worst accidental…

Some members of Kenner Calvary Baptist Church in Metairie, La., used to make a hearty living along the Gulf of Mexico coast selling homemade gumbo and fried fish to tourists, making beds at once-bustling hotels and washing dishes at teeming restaurants. In turn, they made healthy donations at church on Sunday. But then their way…

Written by Perry Bacon Jr. Can the so-called birthers help President Obama win re-election? In an interview with ABC News last week, Obama, who has generally avoided talking about the 2012 election, suggested that continued questions about his background from Republicans such as Donald Trump would hurt Republicans in next year’s elections. Some conservatives have…

For reasons that are truly beyond us, there’s no end to the long parade of cartoons and emails about President Barack Obama or members of his family, and it’s very tempting to say, “This time we won’t report on it; it’s beneath us even to give the idiots who create this trash a platform.” But…

Thanks to Donald Trump and his fellow Birthers, who continue to claim that Barack Obama is a foreign-born Islamist enemy of America, we know what it takes to create a villain for the conservative lunatic fringe. The process involves deadening the brain. Now, through the example of Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan, auteur of a new…

In an interview this morning with ABC News, Obama finally addressed Donald Trump and Birthers who believe he wasn’t born in America. “I think that over the last two-and-a-half years, there’s been an effort to go at me in a way that is politically expedient in the short term for Republicans,” Obama said. President Obama…