GOP's 'mad men'
OPINION - Recently, the GOP has seized on potential African-American conservative stars like famed Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Ben Carson, only to have them go up in a ball of rhetorical flames...
What do Bush and Obama have in common?
OPINION - George W. Bush and Barack Obama, neither of whom was considered an ideologue before they entered office, have presided over the most politically divisive time in modern American history...
Allen West, wife wade into ugly Facebook fight with FAU
OPINION - The chances of West showing up on FAU’s campus to dish out a beatdown are pretty slim...
Congress kills gun control, despite public support
theGRIO REPORT - A few months ago, politicians in both parties were declaring everything had changed involving gun policy in America after the Newtown shooting. They were wrong...
The Tea Party 4 years later: Did it really change US?
NBC NEWS - When the Tea Party movement made its official debut on April 15, 2009, it made quite a political splash with events across the country protesting President Obama's policies on that Tax Day...
‘Tea Party’ is over: Ex-activist says racism, hypocrisy killed the movement
OPINION - Sadly, what began as a genuine opportunity to make this country more free has deteriorated to racist name calling, fear of anyone with brown skin, and an irrational focus on Sharia law...
Why Ben Carson wasn't ready for prime-time
ANALYSIS - Carson could have smoothly entered politics in a number of ways, from appearing on television shows to talk about health care to getting himself in position to be tapped for a post in a Republican administration if the GOP wins back the White House in 2016...
Would Frederick Douglass still be a Republican?
OPINION - This week it was sad to see Frederick Douglass’s legacy cheapened as members of the right-wing sought to use his name as some kind of political racial shield...
Is Ben Carson serious about a presidential run?
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. Benjamin Carson, the renowned neurosurgeon, has over the last two months attacked President Obama's policies at a traditionally non-partisan prayer breakfast with Obama sitting only a few feet away...
At CPAC, Republicans remain resistant to change
ANALYSIS - Five months after their second straight electoral drubbing, leading Republicans remain reluctant to articulate what the party must change in order to win presidential elections in the future...
