Many Dems are too caught up in the heat of the moment to appreciate how destructive Hillary Clinton's presidential run has been, and so it's instructive to use a hypothetical to help define the issue. What would have happened if Bess Truman had decided to run for president eight years after her husband, Harry Truman, left office?

Politico reports that, "in Pennsylvania and Ohio, Clinton won a stunning seven in ten white voters age 60 and older." The reason for this is obvious once you know where to look. Hillary Clinton is pursuing the same strategies as the segregationist George Wallace did in order to convince older white Democrats to vote for her.

Those of Barack Obama's generation or younger have few memories of George Wallace and have trouble relating to his racist message. Older voters, however, are well aware of Wallace's impact and many were sympathetic at the time to his message. Hillary Clinton is craftily playing off this hidden communication and bond.

There's no need to rehash George Stephanopoulos' atrocious handling of last week's Democratic debate. The debate was universally panned as gutter journalism and clearly aimed at throwing the Pennsylvania primary into Clinton' favor. Stephanopoulos crossed the line between tough journalism and unethical journalism. He became a political activist in what was supposed to be a forum for the public to make a fair judgement of the candidates. He did his hatchet job and gave Hillary the boost she needed.

Stephanopoulos is the chief Washington correspondant for ABC News and moderates their flagship Sunday news program. A person in his position should not be seen as politically motivated or biased. We are all aware of how close Stephanopoulos was to the Clintons, and it should have disqualified him from having a role in the Pennsylvania debate, but I'm sure we all expected him to bend over backwards and try to be fair. Unfortunately, he showed his true colors and revealed that he'd rather help Hillary Clinton's campaign than follow journalism's code of conduct. He broke every rule in the book with his specious attacks on Obama.

Charlie: (Addressing Barack) Talkin' at some closed-door fundraiser in San Francisco 10 days ago, ya got ta talkin' in California 'bout small-town Pennsylvanians. Ya say dey bitta, 'n dey don't particularly like people who ain't like who dey is. Ya sed ya mispoke, ya sed ya mangled what ya sed, d'ya undastand tha' some people in dis here state find that patronizin' 'n think tha' ya sed wha' ya meant? How's ya' gonna splain that to 'em?

A while ago, I discovered that the University of Southern California has incorporated swastikas into their campus design. Subsequently, I wrote a story called, Why Does USC Have Swastikas on Their Campus? I thought this would cause a big stir, but not a lot has come of it, so far. Apparently, swastikas have become an accepted part of the USC culture.

Yesterday, I took note of the $6 Billion bail-out for homebuilders. Needless to say, I was very suprised to see that the Senate passed this colossal blunder of a bill in the guise of helping out homeowners. Having lived in Southern California for the past 30 years, the heart of the real estate bubble, I am well aware of the disasterous polices homebuilders have pursued which helped create the fiasco currently unfolding.

CNN is going to re-air its special on the Martin Luther King assassination tonight and tomorrow. Yesterday, I wrote a diary documenting how CNN mischaracterized James Earl Ray and focused on unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. Because I admire Martin and Coretta Scott King so much, I feel compelled to do a follow-up while the interest in King's life and death is so high. So today I would like to explore William Pepper, the man who has wormed his way into King's legacy and seems intent on doing irreparable harm to it.

Last night I watched CNN's two hour special on the Martin Luther King assassination and I was astonished to see CNN lying about who James Earl Ray was. In their attempt to paint Ray as a common thug and a habitual criminal, they painted a false portrait by leaving out key information; CNN's lies were lies of omission. For whatever reason, they neglected to tell you the full story of the man who killed Martin Luther King.

Few realize that we've had a Yale man in the White House for 27 years straight. It started when George H. W. Bush entered the executive branch as Ronald Reagan's vice-president in 1981 and ushered in an era of Yale dominace over the oval office that continues to this day. The elder Bush, a Yale man through and through, graduated into the presidency and was soon replaced by the Yale lawyer Bill Clinton for two terms. Clinton was followed by Yale's pride and joy, George W. Bush, for a period yet to be determined. There is only one candidate who can continue the tradition, Hillary Rodham Clinton. As the Yale trained lawyer desperately tries to continue New Haven's stranglehold on the most important job in the world, I think it's time we examine the history of white supremacism at Yale.

During the Civil Rights era churches were burned and firebombed in order to intimidate African-Americans. Everyone remembers the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing when, in 1963, four black girls were killed when their Mississippi church was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan. In 1996 there was an epidemic of attacks on black churches with over 30 burned to the ground. We are witnessing a more subtle attack on the black church today, but its intent is just as serious and racially motivated.

The black church has always been a powerful entity. It's been a forum for giving voice to the dispossessed and leading the fight against racial discrimination and injustice. Without the black church, the Civil Rights struggle may never have achieved its goals. There is a reason there is such mania by racists to attack this symbol of black freedom and equality.

One of Hillary Clinton's biggest backers, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, has already gotten himself into trouble by his earlier racially charged statements. In February he claimed that Pennsylvanian voters were no better than backwood racists in Alabama when he said, "You've got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate."

But Ed Rendell brings more baggage than that to the Hillary Clinton campaign. Ed Rendell, a man elected to represent the interests of all the citizens of Pennsylvania, with no regard to race, religion or sex, is part of a group that openly discriminates against women.

There's been a lot of talk about how Hillary Clinton is dividing the Democratic Party and hurting the likely candidate with her negative campaign. She seems intent on fighting all the way to the Democratic Convention in Denver. What could be her motive?

It is informational to look back at what she was doing during the contentious 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention. According to Carl Bernstein in his book, "A Woman in Charge", Hillary Clinton was a regular attendee at the event. Not inside, mind you, Hillary was a Republican at the time, and had just attended the Republican Convention in Miami. All the same, like Richard Nixon watching the turmoil outside his hotel room, Hillary was a seeming bystander in the middle of the chaos.

On Feb 5th, during his post Super-Tuesday election speech John McCain said;

I think it's fair to say that we might have come a little bit closer to today to the day when mothers in Arizona might be able to tell their children that someday they could grow up to be president of the United States.

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This made me think of three things. One, have Arizona mom's been telling their kids they can't grow up to be president until now? Two, do we really want another president who mangles the English language. And three, John McCain is destined to be the next president of the United States.

You see, Arizona is one of the states's on the 33rd parallel, the geographic latitude that defines the heart of the South. This makes him the odds on favorite to win the next election.

Not everybody's a fan of caucuses, but few can argue that it would be difficult to fix a caucus or change the results of a caucus. Unlike black box voting machines, caucuses are public events where popular opinion is easily seen. There have been 11 caucuses held so far this year and what stands out is how different their results are compared with the other primaries where individual votes are secretly cast.

When people think of a police state they usually think of East Germany's Stasi, Stalin's KGB or the Saudi Monarchy. A police state in America would look much different.

As the Bush administration calls for increased surveillance of the American public while defending the new tactics of torture and pre-emptive wars, many people jump to the conclusion that the American government is trying to impose martial law on the country. While they are correct in assuming that there are a lot of people in the government and military who have fascist tendencies, it's a mistake to think that the threat comes from the government, whose very purpose is to stop such a thing from occurring.

It was Calvin Coolidge who famously said, "The business of America is business." America's police state looks much different from the state-run totalitarian regimes we're used to. It has been privatized.

I sometimes wonder if Hillary Clinton wasn't in the presidential race, if she was just an ordinary person like you and me trying to decide who to vote for, whether she'd be a supporter of Barack Obama or the other Democrat, candidate B.

It would be hard to ignore Obama's charisma, his sense of humor and his soaring oratorical skills. On the other hand, candidate B is a better debater and has more experience, although appearing slighly stiff and wonkish.

Candidate B has grown accustomed to limousines and the privileged high society life of five star hotels and luxury resorts. Obama has lived a life like the rest of America and knows the burden that college loans and gas prices have on the average person.

Urgent: Please pass this on to Barack Obama and the other presidential candidates, local law enforcement, government officials, and everyone else you know.

John Lennon was assassinated 27 years ago, one month before Ronald Reagan assumed office. That was a long time ago, but it should be a reminder to all people who work for change and promote peace that there are people out there who are willing to do anything to extinguish the flame of hope and turn this country in the direction of division and violence.

Before Lennon, there was Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and John Kennedy. Over my lifetime, the entire leadership of the left has been systematically eliminated in a violent wave that resembles places like Pakistan and El Salvador more than it does the United States I thought I knew.

If you have the HBO/Cinemax package, you've no doubt noticed the Oliver Stone marathon going on. Seems like they're showing JFK, Alexander, and Natural Born Killers on an endless loop. Stone announced last week that his next project would be a bio of the current president. Why the remake?

I mean, I saw the original. It was called Alexander. It starred a bunch of Celtic actors portraying Greek warriors who spoke with heavy Scottish brogues.

Before I get ahead of myself, I should note that I have a contrarian view of who Oliver Stone is. While most people view Stone as a Hollywood liberal, I find no evidence that this is true. His glorification of violence, power and war are easily seen and his choice of films betrays his bias; Conan, Nixon, Talk Radio, Wall Street. I even hear he wants to make a film of Ayn Rand's Fountainhead.  

Most people know Herbert Hoover as one of the worst presidents in the nation's history, a conservative Republican who led the country into the Great Depression. If they only knew the real impact Hoover had, they would be shocked.

Up until Herbert Hoover, a majority of African-Americans had supported the Republican Party, the Party of Lincoln. Hoover changed all that with his Lily White Policy, a plan devised to get African-Americans out of the Republican Party and bring in the white Southerners. He's responsible for developing the Southern strategy that Nixon, Reagan and Bush would later embrace. He turned the party of big business into the white man's party.

Herbert Hoover was a white supremacist. He believed blacks were inherently inferior and wanted to get rid of any blacks from positions of authority and power in the Republican Party. Hoover's racism is manifest in his response to the great Mississippi Flood of 1927, his Supreme Court picks, and his use of patronage to strip blacks of power. He even fought against anti-lynching laws.