Democrat Bill Owens defeated conservative independent Doug Hoffman in the race for New York's 23rd Congressional District, the first time since the 19th century that a Democrat holds the seat. Hoffman was endorsed by Sarah Palin and other national Republicans, who drove Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava from the race.
read moreCNBC reporter Darren Rovell denigrated Meb Keflezighi's wininthe New York City Marathon -- the first time an American has won that grueling competition in 27 years -- as being not "as good as it sounds" because Keflezighi is an immigrant. This "takes away form the magnitude of the achievement the headline implies." Although Rovell later posted a convoluted sort-of apology the question remains: How long do you have to live in America before you're an American?
read moreIn Queens, N.Y., the opponent of city council candidate Dan Halloran has called attention to the fact that Halloran is the "First Atheling" (king) of the ancient Germanic religion of Theodism, a pre-Christian Heathen religion. Halloran once wrote on a web site that his religion "practices blood sacrifice," which he compared to Jewish dietary laws.
read moreDuring the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama tapped into a strongly felt need for significant change. Despite inheriting a pile of wreckage left behind by his predecessor, Obama as president has set an ambitious national agenda. But we need to evaluate his leadership not primarily in comparison to George W. Bush, who historians are already putting in the league of Ulysses S. Grant while inebriated. Leadership is a quality Barack Obama showed on the campaign trail. It is a quality he has failed to show as president.
read more"Herewith is a modest list of dos and don'ts for servers at the seafood restaurant I am building," writes restaunteur Bruce Buschel. "Veteran waiters, moonlighting actresses, libertarians and baristas will no doubt protest some or most of what follows. They will claim it homogenizes them or stifles their true nature. And yet, if 100 different actors play Hamlet, hitting all the same marks, reciting all the same lines, cannot each one bring something unique to that role?"
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"Republicans hadn't lost in the region in more than a century. Owens defeated Hoffman despite a 45,000-voter registration edge for Republicans and big-name endorsements for Hoffman from former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson and others."
Perhaps it was, at least in part, because of those endorsements?
Whites have always been involved with the NAACP; helped found it, for that matter.