Hugo Gurdon of the Washington Examiner contemplates one interesting aspect of U.S. Sen. Ti Scott’s presidential bid. Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) run for president should sharpen voter focus on Democratic…
J. Peder Zane writes in today’s News & Observer: Why do Democrats relentlessly accuse President Trump of being a racist? For the same reason dogs bark, ducks quack and little…
Columbia English professor John McWhorter reviews for Barron’s a book that focuses on “the black-and-white politics of race on America’s campuses.” In his latest polemic, journalist, novelist, and college lecturer…
I just received an announcement that members of Asheville City Council have been invited to attend a meeting to discuss how “Ferguson” will impact African-American youth here. The truth is,…
Thomas Sowell has been around long enough not to have to worry about violating basic tenets of political correctness, as evidenced by his latest column. I am so old that…
The U.S. Senate lost its most senior member and gained its newest member this week. Michael Barone‘s latest column discusses the significance of Hawaii’s Sen. Daniel Inouye and new South…
As Walter Williams points out in this piece, black unemployment used to be lower than white unemployment. Now it’s much higher. Increasing racism? No — that’s just about vanished. The…
I agree with Rich Lowry at National Review: Don’t rewrite Huck Finn. When I read the book as a kid, I reached the same conclusion. It is Jim, the character…
The gubernatorial primary between Jimmy Carter and Carl Sanders in 1970 was the first political campaign I ever worked in. I had just gotten out of the service and was…
When desperate, accuse the opposition of hating minorities. U.S. Rep Charlie Rangel, a Democrat from New York floundering in a stew of “ethical challenges,” is following that advice: Rep. Charles…
Steve Boriss, an astute observer of the media in transformation, thinks the mainstream media’s “monolithic views” on race have kept America from becoming the color-blind society that the Rev. Martin…
How else do you explain a black man in a state that is 90 percent white defeating a white former First Lady and a white Southern populist.