By Kevin Leininger - 5|12
It's probably just a coincidence that President Obama openly supported gay marriage in his heart – if not in federal law – just before a $15 million Hollywood fundraiser and a Washington Post report on Mitt Romney's alleged teasing of a...
By Kevin Leininger - 5|10
After winning the Republican presidential nomination in 1964, Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater famously told the convention that “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice . . . (and) moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
By Kevin Leininger - 5|8
Twenty years before most of his tribe was forcibly uprooted and shipped west, Miami Chief Jean-Baptiste de Richardville signed a treaty in which the very government that would exile his people gave him and eight other tribal leaders the homes and land...
By Kevin Leininger - 5|3
He's had a nephew murdered, lost his home to bankruptcy, challenged the power structure as head of the local NAACP, nearly died from meningitis and, more recently, been soundly defeated in contests for City Council and county Democratic Party chairman.