Friday was Constitution Day. It was also the day that Joseph Collum's new book "The Black Dragon: Racial Profiling Exposed," was published. That suits Collum just fine.   Collum is very big on the 14th Amendment, and he's downright leery about proposals that involve fiddling with it, overhauling it, repealing it or even tinkering with it on a minor scale. Read More

Before you dismiss me as a Muslim-bashing Quran burner, read on. And yes, I agree that Jones, the pastor of a Florida church who threatened to burn copies of the Quran to protest the proposed mosque being built "at" ground zero, is way over his 15-minutes-of-fame allotment. Having said that, I'll add this: stories like that about Jones are what columnists live for. And Jones' story started off weird and got only weirder. Read More

Chicago gang members -- some current, some former -- held a press conference Thursday. During that press conference, these tough guys whined that police were unfairly targeting them. Now don't that just leave ya prostrate with grief? Here's the background in a nutshell, according to the Associated Press: Read More

And this, dear Examiner readers, is why we have immigration laws in the first place. In the past couple of weeks, a girl described as being only 13 to 15 years old pulled a gun on a couple of Latino men and demanded their money. They refused. She shot both, one fatally. The men were two of five Latino men shot on Baltimore streets recently. Some of those shootings have been fatal. This past weekend, 51-year-old Martin Reyes died after a brutal beating. The man charged with the crime has been described as one suffering from chronic mental illness. Read More

So now, weighing in on the controversy about Arizona's SB 1070, we have that renowned legal expert and pundit known as ... Lady Gaga? Yes, you read that right. In early August, "Gaga" -- whose mommy had the good sense to name her Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta -- performed at a concert in Phoenix. She couldn't resist getting in on the debate about Arizona's SB 1070, that piece of legislation giving the state's police an effective means of curbing illegal immigration. Read More

I heard it again just last week. That would be the most racist remark being uttered in America these days. And it didn't come from right-wingers, conservatives, conservative bloggers, Republicans or members of the Tea Party movement. No, this distinctly racist remark, whenever I've heard it, has come from liberals and others on the left. It's a remark about black Americans, and the ones saying it the most are. ... Black Americans. Read More

Boy, did Shirley Sherrod get reamed. Those who did the reaming admitted as much. And one of them was not, I repeat, not, Andrew Breitbart. Sherrod was the U.S. Department of Agriculture official who worked in Georgia before Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack gave her the boot. In 1986, Sherrod was director of the Georgia State Office for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund. In that capacity she found herself in the position of helping a white farmer. For Sherrod, a black woman, this presented a conflict. Read More