The recent Henry Louis Gates arrest escalated the already tense issue of race relations and more specifically the issue of racial profiling to a national level. The situation has been exploited by the media to the point of dubbing it the end of the pre-racial Obama administration. Upon closer examination however, the Gates issue illustrates a comedy of errors, not a clear and legitimate example of racial profiling that can be used to paint broad strokes in our current political climate.
This comedy of errors starts with the victim …

What Rush Limbaugh truly means to the Republican party is a question that is becoming more and more impossible to answer. 
Former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently joked in a CNN interview that his Republican colleagues, and in specific — Sarah Palin ”aren’t that cute.” This was a quote Mr. Limbaugh didn’t seem to take in as much of a playful stride as Romney, instead attacking the week old GOP council. ”They despise Sarah Palin. They fear Sarah Palin. They don’t like her either. According to them, she’s embarrassing.”
Without playing into the overall political message …