WASHINGTON _ As best as we recall from our parochial school days, a pastor’s job is to take care of his or her parishioners. That flock needs tending, some creatures more than others.Listening to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright the last couple…

WASHINGTON _ If you’re expecting a tepid fall campaign in the race for president, you might want to take a foreign vacation.

The dust-up over an ad by the North Carolina Republican Party featuring Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is…

The full video from Sen. Barack Obama’s speech this morning is now posted online. We here at STLtoday.com have blogged a good deal on this issue — and you have been commenting with force and interest.

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WASHINGTON _ It might be an overstatement to say that Barack Obama has reached a campaign crisis. But with his forward momentum halted in recent days, that looks like what occurred amid the attention to the extremist remarks of his…

 It dominated news talk last night, and is being repeatedly played on YouTube. The words of Sen. Barack Obama’s former minister the Rev. Jeremiah Wright come as an epilogue on a week where the issue of race has been featured prominently…