In electing Barack Obama, many liberals thought we might be closer to an America where race wouldn’t matter. But for California progressives, the same election proved that race mattered more than ever.

When I point out to my conservative friends that in terms of federal spending and exploding deficits, Reagan’s limited government rhetoric didn’t always match reality, they are offended that I would dare question the Republican messiah. Likewise, conservatives can take solace in the fact that the right-wing nightmares and left-wing dreams induced by the new Democratic messiah won’t amount to much either. As of this writing, Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers haven’t been considered for any cabinet positions, but former Clinton officials John Podesta, Carol Browner and William Daley have. In fact, there isn’t much to indicate that the second black president will govern much different from the first.

The case for rubbing it in. 

Lewis Lapham discusses the prospects for the coming Obama administration. 

There are many things South Carolinians are ashamed of--slavery, segregation, low SAT scores. But these are the least of our state’s embarrassments. Our deepest shame is in being represented by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham.

I have two tests that any candidate must pass in order to win my vote: Is he commitment to a traditional foreign policy and is he serious about stopping illegal immigration? Chuck Baldwin passes with flying colors. 

There’s a lot in Oliver’s Stone’s W. that’s overblown, but the film’s main thesis, that George W. Bush is a good but flawed man whose presidency was destroyed by bad men, is most definitely true. 

In Prague 1968, we had Dubček overrun by the Soviets and put out to pasture. Now 40 years later, we have Christopher Buckley purged by the Politburo of National Review.

The moment John McCain signed off on the Wall Street bailout bill, I knew exactly what I was going to be hearing about from that day forward: William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and Barack Obama--not because their relationships are important but because at this point, it’s all the Republicans have got.