The Star-Spanglish Banner

Ben Smith notes that the infamous Paul Shanklin CD that Republican National Committee chairman candidate Chip Saltsman sent around to committee members — the “magic negro” CD — also includes “The Star-Spanglish Banner.” The joke lyrics, sung by a chorus of “Mexicans,” are all about illegal immigrants replacing More…

Kennedy’s Premature Obama Tears

Randall Kennedy, the award-winning author, Rhodes scholar and esteemed Harvard Law School professor, is worried that Obama will lose.

So worried, in fact, that he has already begun analyzing why Obama will lose, if he loses, and the repercussions of that loss, if there is one, in an expansive More…