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Opinion: No Getting 'Over' Anything These Days

(July 8) -- I guess basketball's "King" got the memo from music's "Artist currently known as Prince" in choosing to make "The Decision" on live cable TV rather than through an announcement on the Internet, which "is over," according to Prince. Ironically, the fascination with neither LeBron James nor the Internet is...

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...

GOP Chief Demands Harry Reid's Resignation

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele today called for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to resign his leadership position after it was revealed he had made racially insensitive remarks about then-candidate Barack Obama, saying that an apology was not enough. Steele, speaking on Fox News Sunday and NBC's...

Do You Pass the GOP's Purity Test?

(Nov. 25) -- This week, the Republican National Committee sent out a new resolution to its members designed to weed out political moderates from the conservative ranks of the GOP. Titled, the "RNC Resolution on [Ronald] Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates," the measure sets forth 10 "key policy positions"...

RNC Will Drop Abortion Coverage

(Nov. 13) - Conservatives are fuming and liberals are pointing fingers over news that the Republican National Committee's insurance policy covers abortions. Politico broke the story late Thursday and within hours, the RNC was in damage-control mode. "I don't know why this policy existed in the past, but it will not...

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05/21/12 Michael Steele: Planned Parenthood used abortions to... Source: The Raw Story Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is accusing Planned Parenthood of providing abortions as part of a plot to "eliminate and limit" the African-American population.
05/15/12 Home Ownership Key to Elections, National Strategists... Source: Realtor.org Tuesday morning at the 2012 NAR Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo in Washington, D.C. Celinda Lake, a Democratic political strategist, said middle-aged women without a college education are the key swing demographic in this year's elections.
05/14/12 Newsweek declares O simply fab Source: New York Post - New York NY President Obama's backing of gay marriage dominated the political press over the weekend as Newsweek pronounced him "the first gay president" on its cover.
05/07/12 The Talking Head: Michael Steele Source: Vibe MICHAEL STEELE , THE FIRST BLACK CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, HAS BEEN PILED ON AND PUNCH-LINED BY HIS OWN PARTY.
04/29/12 Michael Steele: Musical Theater Geek? Source: Booker Rising From the Washington Examiner , about the moderate-conservative Republican : "Former RNC Chairman and MSNBC contributor Michael Steele didn't mean to intrude, but when he saw 'Glee's' Darren Criss and Matthew Morrison at Saturday night's MSNBC after-party [after the White House Correspondents' Association dinner] at the Italian Embassy, he needed to get a picture. 'I love 'Glee' because it takes me back to a time when I was in Glee club,' Steele explained to Yeas & Nays after the quick photo session and chat had wrapped up. 'And it opened a lot of doors for me and introduced me to musical theater, which I love.' Steele played Harold Hill in "The Music Man' in college. He was also in 'Anything Goes,' and performed Shakespeare's Macbeth 'cowboy style.' 'With boots and everything,' he laughed."