Is Gov. Romney Responsible for a Woman’s Death?
We’re clearly only a few months away from a presidential election, the latest indicator being the onslaught of negative advertisements coming from each presidential camp. By most accounts, it’s just...
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Playing By a Different Set of Rules?
I’ve been stewing for months now over this issue of whether half the country does or doesn’t pay income taxes. A few weeks ago, my old Senate colleague “Mac,” emailed me in complete frustration over...
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Narrow Justice
Justice has been served. Today a judge in Pennsylvania sentenced former Penn State University Defensive Coordinator Jerry Sandusky to 30 to 60 years in prison for sexually abusing 10 boys over the...
View ArticleRomney’s Constant Flip-Flopping
NOTE: this post was originally written for & published by MSNBC.COM on 10/23/12 Well, it’s all over but the voting. Tonight’s debate was clearly won by the President of the United States. While he...
View ArticlePresidential Debate Part Deux
NOTE: this column originally appeared at MSNBC.COM on 10/16/12 As the second debate gets underway between Republican nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama, I’ve been thinking a lot about what...
View ArticleBinders Full of Women?
NOTE: this column was originally published at MSNBC.COM on 10/17/12. Ok, so you know how you hear something and you have to do a double-take? Well, that’s how I felt at the beginning, middle and...
View ArticleThe Final Debate
NOTE: this post was originally published at MSNBC.COM on 10/22/12. The final debate for the 2012 presidential election will focus on foreign policy, a policy arena former Governor Romney has little...
View ArticleObama’s Judicial Legacy
NOTE: this column was originally published at MSNBC.COM on 11/08/12. President Barack Obama handily won reelection Tuesday and will now have to tackle a number of legislative issues over the next four...
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Racial Entitlements & the Supreme Court
NOTE: this column was originally published at MSNBC.COM on March 2, 2013. Back on November 8, 2012 I wrote this column about President Obama’s legacy after securing a second term. It seems I grossly...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong in South Carolina?
Just imagine a lovely spring day, it’s 72 degrees, zero humidity, and a warm sun is shining down on you in Charleston, S.C. Instead of tooling around in the golf cart with the dogs in tow, I’m covering...
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The School of Political Destruction
Sometimes I wonder if Washington, DC has reached a point where it has lost all its humanity. This town, where even the most mundane legislation rarely passes because of an indeterminate level of...
View ArticleGay Rights or Civil Rights, the Struggle is American
This column originally ran in thegrio.com on June 28, 2013. Like many Americans, I wake up everyday and turn on my favorite morning television program (Morning Joe, of course!) to make sure I didn’t...
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Yes, Even Good Progressives Should Retire From Congress
Back in January, I wrote a piece in usnews.com basically laying out the case that a slew of really really old Members of Congress were probably going to just bag it and retire. Their fundraising was...
View ArticleReligious Liberty Disguised as Jim Crow
So I’ve been following this whole “religious discrimination” movement going on across the country. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) famously vetoed S.B. 1062, which would’ve allowed any business in...
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Today’s GOP: Modern-Day Pharisees
So this is the definition of a pharisee: a member of an ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior...
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Allen West: America’s GOP Stooge
You know how I like to start columns with the word “so?” So, former GOP Congressman Allen West (FL) has written a new book and he’s out peddling it to the masses. Actually, he didn’t write any of it....
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Ducks and Cattle
I got to thinking about what Cliven Bundy has said on the issue of “the Negro” over the last couple of days. And “bam”, Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame came rushing back into my political head. the...
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