Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.
Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.
In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.
The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.
There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.