Well, it’s almost that time of year again: tax day. A day once set aside in recent years for patriotic right-wing activists, to voice their displeasure in a most rousing fashion, their disgust for runaway government spending. Speaking of which, here’s a little tidbit very few seem to be protesting. As David Cay Johnson writes, [...]
Whenever I hear a person claim that President Obama is a slave to the corporatist Wall Street culture, I know immediately that he’s one of three things – he’s either ignorant, blind to reality, or he’s promoting his own agenda. Of course Obama is a slave to Wall Street – we all are. You can’t [...]
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 [...]
Yes, yes….I knew the #Occupy #Movement would make it’s way to the West Coast. I counted the days until it did, you see, I realize that we are close now. Close to what, you ask? Close to our melt down. California is a unique wok of cultures and races, and if nobody else knows how [...]
I have been keeping an eye on my Twitter time line lately and those of you who are a little slow but fast enough to trick yourself into thinking you are politically cognizant are actually taking the time to consider whether the Herman Cain “9/9/9″ plan sounds feasable. And I can feel you on that! [...]
The city streets are filled with garbage and there is no news coverage. The politicians are resigning one by one rather than involve themselves in something they think is a lose lose vote and only the most delicate of civil service employees are upholding their duties with the blessing of the union brotherhood. I was [...]
There are those among us who have reached the height of educational accomplishment such as Judges, Doctors and other folks who have earned their D’s. So when one of our most educated fellows looks at a piece of law and says “What the f*ck” then how in world would us simple people be able to [...]
There’s so much going on in the media and I can barely keep up with it since the drone of people ill equipped to discuss political discourse makes my tongue itch. Amid the trail of disaster left by Hurricane Irene and the recent earth quake that struct our inexperienced East Coast there are now news reports coming [...]
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 [...]
Last week after Pres. Obama’s made his “evolution” on gay marriage public, my initial thought was: great, now they’re going to say that Obama is gay, and all gay people are now going to vote for him because of it. You know, pretty much in the same way all black people voted for him in [...]
Apparently, in the state of Tennessee it’s perfectly legal to commit what’s known as highway robbery. However, if you expect such acts to the the undertaking of the obvious shady criminal element riding a horse and dressed in black as were the bad guys of the wild west, you’re sorely mistaken. Unlike the days of [...]
There is not a person in this country who does not know that the police engages in racial profiling. If a Black person says they are not aware of this practice, they are either not yet beyond the toddler stage of life, or being intentionally deceptive in hopes of receiving special considerations from the white [...]
As if Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio wasn’t bad enough, in steps Shaun Winkler, a white supremacist running for sheriff. As a Republican, Winkler hopes to become Bonner County, Idaho’s next sheriff. As anybody running for office will tell you, media attention is something welcomed and often sought by candidates. That said, not one [...]
I think that one of my proudest moments in life happened at the beginning of this year: my younger brother – a heterosexual Black adult male – joined me in the fight against Amendment One by taking a photo with me, donning “Vote Against” t-shirts. For about a year, I’ve worked tirelessly against the passing [...]
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