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*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 [...]
*American voters should never make another excuse about getting to the polls and voting again. The example set at last fall’s election has set the bar high for everyone. Desiline Victor is 102 years old and she waited on line for over three hours to get her chance to vote for Obama. Victor is a [...]
*Geez, here’s a perfect example of some nitwit reporter attempting to make something out of nothing regarding President Obama’s weekend trip to South Florida. It also highlights exactly why the prez needs a vacation … to get away from the BS. According to transcripts of a chat between reporters and White House Deputy Press Secretary [...]
*(Via USA Today) – President Obama outlined plans Tuesday to revive American prosperity by rebuilding “a thriving middle class,” calling it the “true engine of America’s economic growth” during his annual State of the Union Address. Growing the economy and creating good middle-class jobs “must be the North Star that guides our efforts,” Obama told [...]
*Second Amendment lunatic, er, advocate and outspoken musician Ted Nugent plans to be front and center at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, tonight. Ol’ Ted isn’t known to be a quiet church mouse on any issue he thinks needs a good strong voice. He’ll be the guest of Texas Tea Party/GOP Rep. [...]
*Oh boy, in the midst of all the heated gun regulation debates, an ironic Obama action figure is now on the market, depicting the president as a skeet shooter. The joke stems from the photo of Obama shooting at the presidential retreat at Camp David (see below). When The New Republic asked if he had [...]
*Does Obama personally know anything about guns? Has ever even fired one? That’s what some were asking. So, White House released a picture of the POTUS in the act of firing one In a recent interview with the New Republic, Mr. Obama revealed that had used a gun at the Camp David presidential retreat. “We [...]
*The murder of 15 year old honor student Hadiya Pendleton on Chicago’s South Side drew national attention because she performed at President Obama’s inauguration. Her murder defied the well-worn and infuriating pattern that when a black is gunned down in a poor or any other neighborhood it draws barely a public yawn and scant press [...]
*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, [...]
*Charles Jenkins and Fellowship Chicago’s year-long journey hit a high point at the 28th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards with five wins, including Song of the Year, CD of the Year, Choir of the Year, Traditional Choir of the Year and Recorded Music Package of the Year. The Stellar Gospel Music Awards aired live on GMC [...]
*If you thought you was already beyond annoyed and tired of the Beyoncé lip-synching “scandal,” well you ain’t heard nothin’ yet. That’s because satirist Andy Borowitz of the New Yorker, posted a column titled “Obama Urged to Resign Over Beyoncé Scandal” that’s being taken seriously by (some) readers other media outlets [ but not us, [...]
*Policeman and School teacher were shoo-ins. So was Nurse. City bus driver. “ARMY MAN” was a catch-all phrase used to encompass all branches of the military. You’d hear Postman. Ice cream truck driver. However, when I was a kid, no child I knew, when asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, ever replied, [...]
*The inauguration is done and the dust has settled in D.C. So that means, it’s BACK TO WORK! for the President. But, there were two moments during the inauguration that shows us that he thought about the importance of the moment as though he was becoming the President of the U.S. for the first time. [...]
*As we reported earlier, Princeton scholar Professor Cornel West was “upset” with the idea of President Barack Obama using MLK Jr.‘s Bible for his swearing in ceremony on Monday, ironically, the King holiday. Besides King’s family being OK with it, President Obama says it was a privilege to take the oath of office using a [...]
*This is such an important day for the world as we celebrate a warrior and a President. But as we all know, he’s not an ordinary president, he’s Barack Obama! The President being re-elected is no fluke, he has done his job. A second term is merely a logical next step for a man that [...]
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