Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has attacked President Barack Obama’s approach to curbing energy speculation amid high energy prices as “waving a tar baby in the air.” Suggested Reading The Most ...

“How duz yo’ sym’tums seem ter segashuate?” sez Brer Rabbit, sezee . . . en de Tar-Baby, she ain’t sayin’ nothin’. “How you come on, den? Is you deaf?” Brer Rabbit, sezee. “Kaze if you is, I kin ...

Twenty years ago, I reminded readers of the (now politically incorrect) Walt Disney film, “Song of the South,” because it ...

The sad-faced, spindly little Negro boy was broke, cold and hungry that winter day in Boston in 1902. He did not even know how old he was (he guessed maybe 16), but he knew well enough why he and his ...

BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Mitt Romney has apologized for referring to the Big Dig mess as a "tar baby" during a fundraiser with Iowa Republicans, saying he didn't know anyone would be offended by the term ...

Republican State Sen. Frank Ruff may have apologized for his controversial “tar baby” comment Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean those he offended are quite ready to forgive and forget. In his address to ...

The Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts tackles the GOP’s “tar baby” rhetoric and calls on President Obama to realize it’s not politics as usual. Suggested Reading How MAGA Is Trying to Change the ...

BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Mitt Romney has apologized for referring to the Big Dig mess as a "tar baby" during a fundraiser with Iowa Republicans, saying he didn't know anyone would be offended by the term ...