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Opinion: The Unbearable Earnestness of Harry Reid

(Feb. 2) -- Some people simply don't know when to leave well enough alone. Just when the country got over its knee-jerk overreaction to a politically incorrect statement in light of more important news, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has decided to give the country another chance to reignite conversation over his bouts with...

Opinion: Reid, Rage and Race

(Jan. 12) -- Conventional wisdom says I should be boiling over in sheer rage. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had the audacity to say during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama was a light-skinned African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." To quote the great...

FBI Makes Plea in Civil-Rights Cold Cases

(Nov. 19) -- Many decades later, the FBI still holds out hope of solving dozens of unsolved racially motivated civil rights-era murders. On Wednesday at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., FBI Civil Rights Unit Chief Cynthia Deitle announced that the agency was looking for help locating next of kin in 33 cold cases,...