The decisive issue next week is Barack Obama. Can a Kenyan American become president? Despite the polls, I don’t think so. A Democrat is something like a Cubs fan. In the face of good news, he expects to lose. The experts think the Cubs are the best team in baseball, so of course they will [...]

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The key word for those who hate and fear the possibility of an Obama presidency is “Afro-centric.” I don’t know where they picked it up — maybe they heard it on the Fox network or read it on one of the Web pages about the ineffable Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But it means the destruction of [...]

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‘South Pacific” is a morality play for our time. Sarah Palin is the Ensign Nellie Forbush — an All-American girl as racist, this time a racist with her eye on the White House. She can stir up crowds to shout “Kill him!” at the mention of the presidential candidate of the other party a couple [...]

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China will pick up the tab for most of the seven hundred billion dollars of the rescue fund approved finally last week just as it has picked up the (almost) trillion dollar tab for the Iraq war. China is the banker that serves up the gold to play for most of this country’s trillion dollar [...]

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I was wrong about the first McCain/Obama debate. A third of the way through the event, I said to one of my guests, “My guy is getting creamed!” Note that I did not say, “My candidate is being beaten into the ground.” I don’t have a candidate. Priests, like columnists, are not supposed to endorse [...]

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