Here is CNN’s Roland Martin giving everything but an altar call for Obama. “My e-mail inbox and my talk show lines filled up with people who say that listening to Obama empowers them to get involved, that he is able to connect with them on an emotional and spiritual level that is reminiscent of John […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy new year and welcome back! A very special “thank you” to all of my loyal readers who hung in there during my much needed break from this site. Although I have not posted anything to this site since last year, I have been in the background keeping up with some of the headlines as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was amusing at best to see the numbers of times the word ‘change’ was tossed around by both the Obama and Huckabee camps after the Iowa caucus like cups of kool aide. Recently I came across the following transcript on the website Democracy Now. I’m going to go ahead and post most of it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
CHURCH GROUP SAYS 1,400 BLACK BABIES ABORTED DAILY: Progressive Missionary Baptist Church calls it ‘genocide.’ eurweb.com (source) An anti-abortion religious group – the Progressive Missionary Baptist Church of Berkley, California – has announced the formation of a foundation with the aim of combating what it labels “genocide” in the African American community – the abortion […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Starting today, I am officially starting a new category called “Pimp my Martin”. This category will highlight all the asinine ways liberals invoke the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. in order to further causes that require a stretch of imagination to link to the slain civil rights leader (I did a whole post on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uptown Magazine Goes After Affluent African Americans washingtonpost.com Uptown Magazine, a glossy lifestyle publication aimed at African Americans who earn at least $75,000 a year, is coming to Washington next year as part of a nationwide expansion. Founded in New York City in 2004, Uptown publishes five times a year and has a circulation of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Retailers balk at Maine’s bid to collect proceeds from unused gift cards canadianpress.google.com Dec 20, 2007 PORTLAND, Maine – Remember those $50 gift cards that Aunt Irene and Uncle Harry gave you two Christmases ago? The ones you slipped into your sock drawer and forgot? If the cards were purchased in Maine, the state is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last month, Harvard university announced another initiative that focuses on lowering the cost of tuition for lower to middle-class students. While the policy does sound very promising, the old saying “nothing is free” keeps ringing in my ear. In other words, cutting a $30k tuition down to $18k was prompted by more than just goodness […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Official: 2006 Jena school fire was arson, not related to race By DOUG SIMPSON Associated Press writer Published: Dec 28, 2007 – UPDATED: 3:30 p.m. JENA (AP) — The 2006 fire that badly damaged the high school in this east-central Louisiana town was set by people intending to destroy grade records and had nothing to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…why not continue to play the race card? From: telegraph.co.uk Taking to the podium at the end of a bizarre, shambolic press conference in which Governor Rod Blagojevich sought to appoint Roland Burris to the US Senate, Congressman Bobby Rush dared white Democratic senators to block a black man from joining their ranks. He urged […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More in middle class using payday lenders Unless you have been in the situation where you needed the service of your local payday loan center, it is ridiculous to make the argument about how these operations are doing more harm than good. Here in California, all the information about your loan is posted in big […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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