President Obama and the American people scored a major victory with the recent Fiscal Cliff deal. At least, this is what we’re supposed to believe. That is, if you listen to “certain people” in the media of course. I don’t really feel like naming names, but let’s just say that there’s a lot that they’re [...]
So I would really like to understand a few things, namely why a person who publicly outlined their “plan” to avoid serving this country during a time of war that included wearing crap filled pants for several days to establish mental incapacity, and who’s only claim to fame is an obscure and extremely brief music [...]
You know, I’m starting to second guess Mitt Romney’s VP pick, Paul Ryan. All this time I thought he was a cold and heartless politician much like the guy at the top of the Republican presidential ticket. Judging by his much talked-about budget proposal, with 60% of its cuts targeting the most vulnerable among us, [...]
Back when most of my friends were mad at Corey Booker for finding the Obama campaign Bain attacks to be “nauseating,” I defended him. I’m not going to say that said attacks didn’t work, or helped to frame the debate and establish a clear choice between Pres. Obama and Mitt Romney. As a matter of [...]
I watched the opening night of the RNC Convention on MSNBC. I grew disgusted as lie after lie after lie was told, but wasn’t surprised by it in the least. Nevertheless, I figured a family night of Negrospotting — yes, my entire family watched with me — among the sea of Caucasians in attendance would [...]
Got a question for you, white people….now that the rich elite have destroyed the middle class, what are you going to do? There is no middle ground anymore….poor white people are back to being on equal footing with black people….just like back in slavery days in America. Prior to 1670….poor white people were treated the [...]
Last weekend, when Paul Ryan spoke in Virginia after being introduced as Mitt Romney’s running mate and said, “It’s about opportunities, not outcomes,” it really stood out to me. In my opinion, nothing he said before or after that line matters. For me, that very line essentially framed the debate that is who is best [...]
I really wish the education of inner city kids, or American workers weren’t too big to fail, unlike the banks that make up our financial industry. While the budget deficit and subsequent budget cuts continue in wake of the recent super-committee failure, said industry continues to prosper. In a newly released report by Bloomberg News, we now know [...]
As if we didn’t see it coming, the Super Committee has failed to reach an agreement. Government legislative dysfunction aside, faced with the humongous task of cutting $1.2 trillion off the deficit over the next ten years without a cape, did we really expect them to pull it off? No, in all seriousness, like most of you, I never [...]
Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West – two of Black America’s least favorite Negroes right now – have embarked on what they call a “Poverty Tour”. My guess is they plan to criss cross America highlighting the millions of Americans negatively impacted by the Great Recession. You know, judging by policy choices and enactments on Capitol [...]
God Bless The “Hedge Fund Loophole” & The Republicans Who Protect It So while there’s an ongoing debt ceiling debate over cuts in spending and the need for and increase in revenue by removing gov’t subsidies to huge corporations. Did you know that just by eliminating the tax loophole for hedge fund managers itself, would raise more [...]
I’m an avid watcher of the Investigation Discovery channel. Chock-full of sex, murder, money, and whodunit hour-long documentaries, I’m particularly intrigued by the series featuring scorned wives, lovers, and husbands who find the myriad of ways to plan and execute the demise of their spouse or significant other. In many of the cases, the use [...]
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee will convene a hearing on gun control on Capitol Hill. This long awaited hearing is the first since President Obama’s introduction of proposals and his 23 executive directives in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December. At today’s hearing everyone from the president of the National [...]
This year, I made a pledge to myself that I was not going to feature what I call mugshot stories. That would be, stories in particular that feature people of color being arrested for doing dumb shit. Yes, the internet is filled with those type of stories and there’s no need for me to add [...]
While Chicago has seen 40 homicides in the month of January, the rest of the country is in many ways just waking up to the grim reality of violence in the nation’s third largest city. In yet another bloody weekend that saw seven people killed and six wounded, many are now talking about the pain [...]
A funny thing has happened with the gun control debate that I didn’t see coming; but, to tell you the truth, I should have seen it coming before now. After all, with all the talk of keeping guns out of the hands of “bad guys.” I’d be a liar if I didn’t admit that I [...]
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