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*The mostly media driven scandal talk involving President Obama has so far stirred barely a yawn among the public. There are good reasons. The four alleged scandals, Benghazi, the IRS, the AP leaks, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius supposed shakedown of corporations to help implement the health care act don’t come close [...]
*A week after the great debate over whether Charles Ramsey is an American hero or another American casualty of media induced racial stereotyping or both after help save the lives of the three kidnapped Cleveland women, one thing is now clear. Ramsey has done the seemingly impossible. He’s turned racial stereotyping on its head. First, [...]
*Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did the seemingly impossible. He turned from court mute to a hit man on President Obama. In an interview at Duquesne University Law School in April, Thomas snidely rapped Obama for being the darling of the “elites.” To Thomas that means liberals, progressives, intellectuals, and the supposedly hopelessly liberal media. [...]
*President Obama’s cautious admonition not to rush to judgment about the Boston Marathon terror bombing until all the facts were in put a momentary check on the media and some in the public who were rushing to spew the perennial “Muslim terrorists” did it line. This was a sign of hope that the nation had [...]
*President Obama’s first official statement on the Boston Marathon bombing couldn’t have been plainer on this point: “We still do not know who did this or why. And people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before we have all the facts.” Yet all it took was an isolated and scantily detailed report that Boston Police were questioning [...]
*Renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson managed a unique feat when he drew fire twice in barely a week’s time. First he knocked President Obama at the Conservative Political Action Conference. He drew big applause from the hardline conservative throng there. Some were so enraptured by Carson that they even took a complete flight of sanity and [...]
Kentucky senator and Tea Party darling Rand Paul deserves credit for one thing in his windy 13 hour one man filibuster against the confirmation of John Brennan as CIA Director. He publicly demonstrated that the deal that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cut last January with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to go easy on [...]
*Much was made of President Obama’s seven point approval rating drop. But there’s really no surprise at the drop. The history of presidential wins have well shown that presidential approval ratings are fluid and in flux. A flop of a war will deflate a president’s approval ratings. That was the case with Harry Truman with [...]
*Supreme Court justices Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer virtually seethed with rage in their roundhouse denunciation of the High Court’s denial of review to Bongani Charles Calhoun. The issue again was racial bias in the prosecution of Calhoun on drug charges in Texas. The U.S. Attorney that prosecuted Calhoun quipped during the trial that [...]
*One of the GOP’s fondest wishes has been to kill the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. Twice it floated several trial balloons in Congress. The first one was in 1981 when the Act came up for renewal. The deal in the initial passage of the Act was that it be renewed every 25 years. A [...]
*The GOP’s inviolate article of faith is that big government is inherently evil. The GOP has been stupendously successful through much of the last century in tagging any Democrat that champions increased regulatory powers, higher taxes on corporations and the rich, greater public spending on health, education and job programs, and bolstering entitlement programs as [...]
*The clamor continues for President Obama to attend the funeral of 15 year old honor student Hadiya Pendleton gunned down on a Southside Chicago street. There’s even an online petition on the White House website imploring Obama to attend. The petition delicately sidesteps the issue of race and whether black lives are less valued than [...]
*The NAACP and the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda were gentler than earlier critics, but no less incessant that President Obama had a duty and obligation to appoint more blacks and Latinos to cabinet and staff positions, and the Supreme Court. Unlike the earlier knocks against Obama for his alleged lack of diversity in his appointments, [...]
*Matthew Whitten Darby, a white teen, is scheduled to go on trial in February for the hit and run murder in July, 2012 of 61 year old John Butts, a Sunday school teacher, cancer survivor, and an African-American. As it now stands, Whitten will not be hit with a hate crime charge in the murder. [...]
*It was more than fitting that President Obama’s inauguration fell on the national day of celebration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was even more fitting that he took the oath of office on the bible that King used. More than any other resident of the White House, Obama understood that King is a [...]
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