Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.