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*When I graduated from college the first time followed my dreams and became a newspaper and television news reporter. I traveled across the country covering stories, one of the most memorable was when I met Nelson Mandela during his visit to the United States after his release from a South African prison. When I graduated [...]
*Bill Cosby isn’t anyone’s Dr. Huxtable anymore. The outspoken actor and activist recently compared today’s Republicans to racist segregationists for staying in their seats during the president’s State of the Union Address. During a discussion about the Voting Rights Act in a (debatable) post racial society on “Starting Point” with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, he pointed to [...]
*(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. [...]
*House Speaker John Boehner has invited President Barack Obama to deliver the State of the Union speech on Feb. 12. In a letter sent today, Boehner says the country faces immense challenges, and Americans expect the Congress and White House to work together on solutions. Boehner says cooperation will require, quote, a “willingness to seek [...]
*The race of Florida teen Trayvon Martin had less to do with his death than the fact that the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed him was carrying a gun, comedian Bill Cosby told CNN in an interview that aired Sunday. Martin, 17, was shot and killed in February by self-appointed Neighborhood Watch captain George Zimmerman. [...]
*Watching the President of the United States give a State of the Union address is often like watching a peacock strut. Its head projecting forward with each step, and its spawned feathers saying “Look at me. I’m tall. I’m beautiful. I have it all. I did it all.” The President usually lists an embellished log [...]
*Bravo Mr. President. Your 3rd State of the Union address was a home run. With the conviction and resolve the America public demands from their leader, you delineated the state of our nation – citing chapter and verse – and underscored that it is getting stronger. Yet your detractors have called your efforts a delusion [...]
*First Lady Michelle Obama sported a sapphire blue dress by Los Angeles-based designer Barbara Tfank for the State of the Union address. The designer described it as a “criss cross bodice cap-sleeved slim dress in silk twill.” Mrs. O also wore Barbara Tfank — a floral print dress from the resort collection — last May [...]
*Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network are unimpressed with President Barack Obama’s progress during his three years in office. They say Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night was long on rhetoric and short in presenting a strategy to fix the stagnant American economy that has not improved under [...]
*President Obama warned in his State of the Union address Tuesday that the nation’s middle class is at risk because of growing economic inequality, and argued that the government must do more to preserve the basic American dream. In a speech that is likely to set the theme of his 2012 re-election bid, Obama said [...]
*Michelle Obama sported a Rachel Roy silk dress to Tuesday’s State of the Union address. The choice for an American designed dress comes in the wake of backlash she received for wearing a European designer [Alexander McQueen] to the state dinner for China last week. Roy, the ex-wife of former rap mogul Damon Dash, couldn’t [...]
*Pleading for unity in a newly divided government, President Barack Obama implored Democratic and Republican lawmakers to rally behind his vision of economic revival for an anxious nation, declaring in his State of the Union address Tuesday night: “We will move forward together or not at all.” To a television audience in the millions, Obama [...]
*President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight will be “all about America winning,” one of his top advisers told CNN. Valerie Jarrett said the president will focus on “winning for the future and what we have to do to be competitive in this global marketplace.” Facing a divided Congress, a still-recovering economy, and critics [...]
*President Obama’s second State of the Union Speech scheduled for Tuesday, January 25 is under fire before he has even uttered one word of it. This was predictable. The State of the Union speech is generally one of the most watched and listened to political speeches. It’s a President’s report card on the accomplishments, [...]
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