Rusty DePass, a former chairman of the Richland County Republican Party in Columbia, S.C., read a Facebook posting recently about a gorilla that had briefly escaped from the Columbia zoo, injuring one person.
Minutes later, DePass posted this: “I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors — probably harmless.”
He told reporters his reference to Michelle [...]
More than a few people in Michigan are upset, and it has nothing to do with the uncertain automobile industry. It has to with Kentucky.
The Depot Town Community Development Corp., a non-profit agency charged with revitalizing two public parks in Ypsilanti, Mich., decided to host a Bluegrass music festival in September to help raise needed [...]
Many of those who saw President Barack Obama’s election as historic immediately bought anything bearing his image.
The Rev. Willis Polk of Imani Baptist Church in Lexington, who worked on Obama’s campaign locally, was one of those people. He picked up yard signs, buttons, magazines and newspapers as he traveled. He grabbed anything that he thought [...]
I’m always a bit perplexed when Christians decry the mortgage bailouts, saying their neighbors should have known better than to buy houses they couldn’t afford. “Why should ‘our’ money go to save them? No one is bailing me out and I pay my mortgage every month,” they say.
Christians say that. Christians. It blows my mind.
I [...]
A reader from nearby Paris called Wednesday, wanting to know if anyone had noticed the gesture Obama made when the Punahou Marching Band and Junior ROTC marching unit passed him in his inaugural parade yesterday.
Obama, obviously happy to see students from his alma mater Punahou School, a private, college preparatory school in Honolulu, smiled broadly [...]
There are a heap of things I dislike about President George Bush: his foreign policy, his domestic policies and his environmental policies to name just a few.
But after watching that video of an Iraqi reporter throwing both his shoes at Bush during a press conference in Bagdad Sunday, I confess I am totally impressed with [...]
After 52 percent of California voters decided earlier this month to ban same-sex marriage in their state, gay rights activists there and throughout this nation took to the streets demanding a right unrelated heterosexuals are granted without question.
A majority of the voters in California, Florida and Arizona recently determined that because of their sexual orientation, [...]
President-elect Barack Obama, in no small measure, carries the high expectations of African-Americans on his narrow but steady shoulders.
But what of the woman standing next to Obama, the one he called his “rock” and the “love of his life?” What do people expect of Michelle Obama, who will soon be the first black first lady [...]
From the early Democratic presidential primaries until Barack Obama became president-elect, a white friend of mine has been unflappable in his belief that Obama would be our new president.
From the doubts of Obama’s experience, through the repetitive barrage of The Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, to the torrid final charge by Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign, [...]
Evan Dolive and Tom Teater will share a birthday Tuesday while canceling out each other’s vote for the president of the United States.
Dolive, 26, is a Republican voting for Sen. John McCain. Teater, 44, a Democrat, will cast his ballot for Sen. Barack Obama.
But far more important than their politics is their Christian belief that [...]
I am a native Kentuckian, and I have worked at the Lexington Herald-Leader for nearly a quarter of a century. I've been a columnist for almost 20 of those years, dispensing my opinions about anything and everything. Born in Owensboro, Ky., I'm old enough to have lived through racial segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, protests against the Vietnam War, and the break-up of the Beatles. That means I am "old school," and my thoughts emanate from that perspective.