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So this is compassion?

In an Indianapolis speech called The Duty of Hope last week, candidate George W. Bush unveiled a palette of proposals to fill in the details of his heretofore fuzzy outline of "compassionate...

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How not to stifle a racist

If you happen to be an employer, a First Amendment absolutist or a trash-talking loser, life became a bit more difficult last week.That's because the California Supreme Court forbade the future use of...

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The real Bush drug scandal

One minute, you're tooling along the bustling superhighways of downtown Houston with its sleek office towers and important-looking people driving fancy cars. Then you exit at Scott Street, enter the...

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White men can jump

It was the headline -- "White man gets mayoral nomination in Baltimore" -- that got the Washington Post into so much hot water last month that its ombudsman, R. Shipp, felt obliged to issue this odd...

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Goodnight, Irene

One day the Democratic Party may wake up and wonder where all the black people have gone. While blacks over 50, especially older black women, remain solidly Democratic, the young are increasingly...

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“The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction” by Linda Gordon

In 1904, a group of New York nuns delivered 40 mostly Irish but entirely Catholic orphans to a remote Arizona mining town to be adopted by local Catholics. What happened next is the subject of...

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Black like who?

Depending on who's doing the talking, convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal is either a race-maddened psychopath cynically manipulating the gullible into helping him get away with murder, or an innocent...

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Try him again

Probably the only thing the defense and the prosecution sides in the Mumia Abu-Jamal case would agree on is that the burden lies with the defense team to win him a retrial. Under the governing federal...

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No apologies

Every day this week, perfectly nice latte-drinking, movie-going, please-and-thank-you Americans are trying to blow the heads off a bunch of Iraqis whose faces they'll never see. They'll try really hard...

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False prophet

Just when you thought your opinion of the Nation of Islam (NOI) and its reality-challenged leaders couldn't fall any lower, you find yourself clearing a space in the basement of your mind. Washington...

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“An American Story”

For all my interracial enlightenment, intraracially, I was a mess. I could never forgive the "hood rats" for embarrassing me. No one would blink when some black airman mangled his verbs and said "I be"...

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I want you to want me

I was first in line for "Wedding Crashers" on opening night, hoping it would be as funny and sexy as it looked. It was. I laughed out loud and had enough naughty thoughts about surfer-dude Owen Wilson...

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Chicks with guns

My daughter went to the war and all I got was this lousy memoir. The men get "Jarhead," a hauntingly beautiful and disturbing recounting of the Gulf War by former Marine Anthony Swofford, a man...

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Beyond blaming whitey

If it's Thursday, there must be a new book out promising black folks 10 Easy Steps to Ending Racism and Perfecting Your Collard Greens. Step No. 1: Buy this book. Step No. 2: Pay me a huge speaker's...

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Sympathy for the devil: Leave Rev. Al alone!

Say it ain't so, Barack. Say you didn't authorize it (or gloat) when your henchmen pulled down your elder's pants in public and tried to humiliate the Rev. Al Sharpton in the pages of the New York...

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I used to be in love with Dan Savage

Dear Dan, This is perhaps the hardest letter I've ever had to write. I've started it again and again but I know now that I'll never get it right, so just let me stumble my way through, OK? Please don't...

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Michelle Obama’s sacrifice

You knew it had to happen. Damn it all, Michelle Obama has quit her $215,000 dream job and demoted herself to queen. Though the party line is that she's only "scaled back" to a 20 percent workload, I...

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Healthy, my ass

Poor MeMe Roth. She had a misguided crusade against tubby "American Idol" contestants all ready to go, then the damned facts got in the way. All the anti-obesity crusader needed was a hapless...

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The NAACP’s sad decline

Could it really be? Is the NAACP, the civil rights group that rocked the entire planet so hard that even the students in Tiananmen Square invoked it, really on the verge of collapsing with a willfully...

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Why Cory Booker is mad as hell

Anger gets a bad rap. It's the universal disguised denunciation ("Why are feminists so angry?"), the wink-and-nudge code word to signal contempt while fronting as pity for the deranged. That label...

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