We know that while defeat is an orphan, victory's illegitimate fathers come out of the woodworks like cockroaches to claim paternity, but the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) claiming credit for Barack Obama's election? That's almost as credible as John McCain saying that he does not regret picking Sarah...

On November 4, 2008, at 11:00 pm, Robert Kennedy finally won.

Forty years after his assassination shattered dreams and brought his quest to change America to a sudden, brutal halt, Robert Kennedy reached the goal that had been denied him in life.

He was not yet 43 years old during...

We've got to give the Republicans credit: they have successfully diverted everyone's attention away from their plans for the United States Supreme Court. Almost forgotten in the wake of the GOP's seemingly endless smear attacks and fear mongering is the simple fact that if elected, John McCain and Sarah Palin...

"Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism."

While these words seem tailor made for the divisive rhetoric of the McCain campaign, they were actually spoken more than 58...

Ok, who would you like to see alongside the next President of the United States in a crisis, Warren Buffett or Phil Gramm? General Colin Powell or Randy Scheunemann? Paul Volcker or Nancy Pfotenhauer? We know a great deal about Powell (Republican former Secretary of State, former National Security Advisor...

Who is Todd Palin?

According to the Alaska legislative report on what has become known as Troopergate, Sarah Palin's husband used the Governor's office to promote a personal agenda. Indeed, while the report found that Governor Palin "unlawfully abused her authority" in her obsessive vendetta against her former brother in...

The fear mongers and race baiters are rearing their ugly heads again. Repeatedly, speakers at McCain-Palin rallies -- one in a sheriff's uniform -- rile up their base by referring to the Democratic presidential candidate as Barack Hussein Obama. At the same time John McCain and Sarah Palin crassly accuse...

Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy month.

Now that the McCain-Palin crowd have figured out that they are on course to lose the White House, expect a resurgence of all the sleazy and all too familiar GOP tactics designed to appeal to the basest prejudices and most...

Sarah Palin, meet G. Harold Carswell and Roman Hruska, men you may never have heard of; and while we're at it, John McCain, meet Richard Nixon.

Carswell, as those among us with long memories or an interest in historical esoterica will recall, was the wholly undistinguished Federal Court of Appeals...

I love the McCain campaign's way of confronting reality: ignore it and make up whatever seems most expeditious, truth be damned. It avoids having to deal with pesky little annoyances like facts. A perfect example is the ad they put up on the Wall Street Journal's website Friday night, several...

Never let it be said that the Republican Party is not sensitive to changing moral standards. Its 2008 Platform has dropped its prior opposition to internet gambling. At the same time, however, the GOP stands firm in its opposition to abortion in any way, shape or form, for any reason...

Yes, Virginia, there are Republicans who are extremely knowledgeable about foreign affairs. Senators Richard Lugar, Chuck Hagel and John Warner come to mind, as do former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, George Shultz and Colin Powell. One might be forgiven, however, if one does not instinctively include Alaska Governor Sarah...

If John McCain is elected President on November 4th, Sarah Palin, as Vice President, is certain to push for the appointment of federal judges, including justices of the United States Supreme Court, who share her political ideology. It is entirely appropriate, therefore, for us to review what we actually know...

After a spokesman for the Obama campaign observed quite accurately that many American Jews consider Patrick Buchanan, the former right-wing Republican presidential candidate and aide to Presidents Nixon and Reagan, to be a Nazi sympathizer, Buchanan's friends on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, where he is a frequent guest, rallied to...

Let's see now, John McCain doesn't know the difference between Shi'a and Sunni, refers to a non-existent "Iraq-Pakistan border," believes that Iran trains Al Qaida terrorists (Bin Laden's Al Qaida is Sunni; the vast majority of Iran is Shi'a, less than 10% are Sunni), and doesn't know how many homes...

Mock, disparage, ridicule, distort.

Mock, disparage, ridicule, distort.

As election strategy formulas go, this one really isn't complicated or overly sophisticated. Even the candidate can probably remember it, and it doesn't matter if he gets any of the elements out of order. The McCain machine is intent on tearing down...

Here's a message for reluctant Democrats, feminists and independents who can't seem to make up their minds and back Barack Obama: consider the alternative, and get over your existentialist angst. Too many things are at stake this year for any of us to be able to afford allowing John McCain...

Leave it to the Germans to lay bare their ugly racist proclivities. "Uncle Barack's Cabin" is the headline on the front page of Die Tageszeitung, a leading Berlin newspaper, over a large photograph of the White House. Nice. The reference, of course, is to Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel,...

On Thursday, Senator Joe Lieberman not only announced his intention to speak at a conference hosted by the controversial pastor Reverend John Hagee, but he continued to defend and praise Hagee in spite of his offensive statements disparaging to victims of the Holocaust.

When Reverend Hagee made the detestable claim...

I never thought I'd see the day when the Holocaust would be used as a tool for "gotcha" politics. But over the last two days, we have seen John McCain's supporters at the Republican National Committee and at Fox News launch tasteless attacks on Barack Obama. In their attempt to...