Bill Richardson and Barack Obama have always seemed a bit like an odd couple.

When the New Mexico governor stabbed his former patrons Bill and Hillary Clinton in their backs last March by endorsing Obama over Hillary, everyone knew that Richardson was simply making a calculated political wager by...

There is something very ugly happening out there in the hinterlands these days--a brewing cauldron of racist anger being directed at President-elect Barack Obama as he and his family get ready to move into the White House. It's a mean-spirited bigotry that is finding its way onto the internet and...

Let's get the personal creds down at the beginning: I supported Barack Obama for President out the gate. Early on. And all the way through. More than that, I publicly castigated the Clintons for peddling a soft-core racism throughout the campaign. I got down in the trenches. Took lots of...

A series of racist emails sent out on State of Alaska email accounts have targeted President-elect Barack Obama. In one, the concluding line assessed Obama's victory and impending move to the White House as: "Another black living in government housing!"

According to the Associated Press, three of the racist...

This past Friday, Governor Sarah Palin made her way to Fairbanks, in the subarctic interior of Alaska, where she participated in a glorified photo-op at which the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) license was signed by Alaska state officials. "This is a significant step as we march forward toward Alaska's...

When she ran for Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin campaigned on a promise of "open and transparent government."

What she didn't say was that such political transparency came with a hefty price tag--in some cases, more than $15 million.

That's more than twice what a book by Palin would reputedly...

Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find...
--Ray Charles

No sooner had she committed to hunkering down in Alaska to "get back to work," the Last Frontier's rogue governor, Sarah Palin, is headed back to the campaign trail again, first to Georgia, where she will stump for the Great White...

New allegations have surfaced in Alaska charging Governor Sarah Palin with additional violations of the Alaska Executive Ethics Act.

At the same time, even more of her past political improprieties have come to light, along with details of criminal charges filed against Palin when she was a member of the...

It was surely an odd bit of timing on Monday, November 3--just hours before one of the biggest presidential elections in American history--that the Alaska State Personnel Board issued a finding by its chief investigator, Timothy J. Petumenos, that Republican vice-presidential candidate and Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, did not breach...

It would have been utterly pathetic were it not for the urgency of the moment: with less than four days to go in one of the most significant elections in modern human history, there was California's Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the campaign trail in Ohio, pandering for John McCain and...

October has not been a good month for Rick Davis, the notorious uber-lobbyist who's also managing John McCain's failed campaign for the American presidency. His candidate is sinking in the polls and the election is slipping through his fingers. What's more, the GOP is going to be outspent by four-to-one...

In the hardscrabble world of American politics, there are still some issues too hot to touch, too sensitive for discussion. You know, like the "R" word. People like to throw race around like, well, Donavan McNabb throws the football (he being an "affirmative action" quarterback, according to Rush Limbaugh), but...

The news today that retired general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell had endorsed Barack Obama must have sent shivers up the spine of John McCain's beleaguered campaign manager Rick Davis, who has crafted a two-week assault on Obama's character and patriotism in the remaining days of the 2008...