8.8.10 – An employee at a Subway restaurant in North Chicago was ordered to pay a $75 fine for asking a Pakistani-born customer if he was being recruited to be a terrorist, authorities said.

8.3.10 – Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters' banking scandal is a cautionary tale about the Congressional Black Caucus, a group that's enjoyed little scrutiny while influencing major

8.4.10 – Just as the 9/11 strikes exposed radical Islam to greater scrutiny, so too is the 9/11 mosque. Yesterday, a New York City panel paved the way for the building of the controversial “9/11 mosque” near Ground Zero. While vexing to many, there is one unintended consequence to this entire affair that deserves noting: like the 9/11 strikes a decade earlier, the controversy surrounding the 9/11 mosque has also been creating a stir, been making people think and talk — about Islam.

8.4.10 – It seems like a hoax. Federal judges have used racial bias laws to help a convicted rapist while disregarding his victim – all in a ruling so short it could fit on a Facebook status update.

8.3.10 – Why Newt Gingrich's take on the ugly dispute over a mosque near Ground Zero is illogical. Newt Gingrich, his doctorate notwithstanding, has offered us an illogical and ahistorical context to the ugly dispute about building an Islamic cultural center and mosque near Manhattan's Ground Zero. For a while, I thought that Sarah Palin…

8.3.10 – With every passing day, the dispute over the planned Islamic Center near Ground Zero grows more acrimonious. These feelings will probably only get worse today, when the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission is expected to remove another hurdle by ruling against landmark status for the undistinguished old building the center will replace.

8.1.10 – Former NAACP leader Julian Bond wants President Obama to lead a "national dialogue" on race, but the president is not going to do that, and he's making a smart political decision. In the wake of the Shirley Sherrod story, the race issue is back in the news, but any public discussion is fraught with danger. Trying to define and heal racial divisions in America will inevitably lead to verbal roadside bombs — anything can explode at any time.

8.1.10 – Any conservatives who believed that our nation’s unofficial pastime, “All Race All the Time,” would become passé with the election of Barack Obama were proven wrong just minutes into his inauguration. Despite the presence of the racially mixed Obama eagerly awaiting the award of the mighty pen of power, yet another of my former senator’s race-obsessed pastors encouraged white Americans to “embrace what is right.”

Public confidence in Congress has plummeted to the lowest level of any institution since Gallup began asking the question in 1973. One-half of all Americans have little or no confidence in the Congress. Only 11 percent have a “great deal” or “a lot of” confidence in what is, given its place of primacy in the Constitution, the first branch of government and the branch most representative of the people.

7.30.10 – Waiting for teh next revelations regrading more racists comments! Who knows what lies ahead for Shirley Sherrod – a book, the lecture circuit, a wrongful discharge lawsuit that could bring millions? But if she keeps talking, the woman "wrongfully portrayed" as a racist may out herself as exactly that.

7.28.10 – By using just the right words, an Iranian mosque goes brothel, takes a 5% pimp cut, and stays holy. But don't laugh: PC language codes have us doing the same thing here.

7.27.10 – Has the Grinch added something to the water in Loudoun County? What else explains the Board of Supervisors' otherwise inexplicable attempt to reverse its own unanimous vote last December allowing traditional holiday displays at the county courthouse in Leesburg?

7.26.10 – The US Department of Agriculture, from which Shirley Sherrod was fired for appearing to discriminate, stood at the forefront of institutional racism for decades. The question of whether America has righted historical wrongs against blacks ignites today's heated race debate.

7.26.10 – Boy, did Shirley Sherrod get reamed. Those who did the reaming admitted as much. And one of them was not, I repeat, not, Andrew Breitbart.

Almost from the moment Barack Obama declared he would run for president in 2007, our enraptured media elite has been accusing anyone who would stand in Obama's way with racism. The question was never whether Obama was ready to govern the country, but whether the country was ready for the historic awesomeness of Obama.

7.21.10 – By now, everyone knows that Michael Savage has been banned from Britain on the grounds articulated by disgraced former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith: “Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behavior by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence.”