Such as when Palin drew a distinction between "candidates who use change to promote their careers," and "those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote...
I've defended Barack Obama by urging that we think outside the box and ask whether the world with which McCain is so familiar hasn't changed over the last 40 years to...
Here's the difference. Democrats can't afford to do too much scare-mongering because they still need to introduce their candidate. They have to demystify Barack Obama...
Still, immigrants don't come empty-handed. They bring their hopes for a better future for their children and a work ethic that often puts natives to shame. And they...
Three polls show the contest between Obama and John McCain as a virtual dead heat. A New York Times/CBS News poll and a Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey each found 45...
But just how valuable is a candidate's experience when it comes from living in a world that has changed? And how do you decide whether a country has changed over time...
First, he has to win over the Hillary holdouts, especially those women over 50 who think he's more style than substance and insist that he only got this far because the...
We are now almost halfway into a 17-day pilot self-deportation program that ICE is trying out in San Diego and four other U.S. cities: Chicago, Phoenix, Charlotte, N.C.,...
Not Bill Clinton, who condescendingly likened Obama to Jesse Jackson and then described the reaction to that comment as a "mugging." Clinton is still reeling from the...
Affirmative action could mean something as harmless as government agencies or private companies recruiting at minority career fairs or placing ads in minority...
In one of the most recent such operations, in Postville, Iowa, federal agents apprehended nearly 400 illegal immigrant workers -- most of them from Guatemala -- at...
But what Obama really needs to do is to connect with Latino voters on a more personal level by convincing them that he empathizes with their experience. And, thanks...
"You just hear this constant whining," Gramm told The Washington Times, "complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline." It's true. Americans do...
After all, critics ask, doesn't "la raza" mean "the race"? So this is, the National Council of the Race? How crude. "We take a lot of heat for our name," Murguia...
The night before, at the eighth-grade graduation across town, a young girl, another valedictorian, did something similar. She included a single sentence thanking her...
One problem with Monday's speech may have been that Obama spent most of it on the defensive. As if he had something to prove. He also tried to cover too much ground. He...