Opinion: Is Barack Obama Jackie Robinson or Stepin Fetchit?

We’ll find out Tuesday.

Jackie Robinson was the first black professional Big League baseball player who broke the color barrier in 1947 and proved to the world he was an equal if not better player than many of his white teammates and competitors. He served as an inspiration not only to people of color all over the world, but to his country---at great cost to himself.

Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry on the other hand, whose stage name was Stepin Fetchit, was the 1930’s actor noted for his wide-eyed, shufflin,’ hang-dog look ...

Opinion: What will be the outcome if Obama loses the election? Here are 11 realizations.

1) Racists will take heart. The first black president elected in American history was a failure. Not up to the job. Voters turned him out after only one term. There’s no way around it, if you’re a member of the Ku Klux Klan, this will be a joyous affirmation that blacks are not intelligent enough to do the job. It will also affirm by inference that women are also not qualified and other so-called labeled minorities, because racists lump them all together. This would set the civil rights movement back, ...

Opinion: The Hollywood film and related fashion industry have in their own unwitting way contributed to anorexia, intentional starving to achieve thinness. It’s a paradox. In a country in which there is an epidemic of obesity because calorie-laden salt and sugar and fructose-impregnated foods and sodas are creating a generation of 300-pound children.

In the same country, women are starving themselves to achieve the look of a movie star or fashion model---a look that can never be fulfilled. No matter how thin you are, for some, it’s never enough.

Anorexia is not a disease as practicing ano...

Opinion: I saw where Royal Prince Harry has returned to Afghanistan and will serve as a helicopter gunner. This surprised me, as I thought they would put him up in a Howard Johnson’s Hotel in Kabul and give him a computer to play games on.

How heroic of Harry.

But you’ve maybe heard the old saying, “Royals never die---they just pose and grandstand away.”

Prince Harry, who once wore a Nazi uniform at a wild party, and who recently stripped naked at another party in Las Vegas, and dove into a pool with a drink in his hand, has with his government’s concurrence, decided to WOW us with his p...

Opinion: Why would a Lindsay Lohan type, who furthers her career by seeking out trouble and creating scandals, or any celebrity for that matter, get married?

Even for those of us considered normal, the institution of marriage could be seen as a potentially, fatally flawed act of lunacy. You go into a church and stand before a priest, rabbi or holy man, whatever. You make promises you have no understanding of the magnitude of, because you don’t even understand yourself, making lifetime vows to another person---whom you also don’t fully understand-----and they also don’t understand themselve...