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<p>Autos Home WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama, the only major black candidate in the 2008 presidential race, has spent much of his life anguishing over his mixed-race heritage and self-described “racial obsessions.” Descended from a white American mother and black Kenyan father, the Illinois Democrat once wrote: “He was black as pitch, my mother white as milk.”</p>

AN INCONVENIENT CONTROVERSY The rest of the story about science teachers Wednesday, December 13, 2006 Steve Edwards In an op-ed article published in The Oregonian ("Science a la Joe Camel," Dec. 2), Laurie David writes about the National Science Teachers Association's rejection of an offer of 50,000 copies of Al Gore's global warming film, "An Inconvenient Truth." The company that produced the film offered to give the copies to the teachers association for distribution to its members and also asked that the association write a cover letter. The association declined the offer, stating that it would violate a policy in...

The Swift Boating of Michael J. Fox John Nichols Sat Oct 28, 12:44 AM ET The Nation -- Rush Limbaugh is not just making an issue of Michael J. Fox's campaign ads for Democratic candidates who support stem-cell research. The conservative talk-radio personality is making it the issue of a fall campaign that gets stranger by the day. While it may be hard to figure out why anyone with Limbaugh's political pull and national prominence would declare war on the guy who played Alex P. Keaton -- one of television's most outspoken, if eccentric, conservatives -- in the series "Family...