Join me as I speak with one of the producers of the upcoming film “The Other City” , Huffington Post contributor and Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Jose Antonio Vargas. The film is about the AIDS epidemic in Washington D.C.
Plus….
We’ll also be talking to the director of the non-profit organization Peace in the Hood, [...]
‘Memba that during the elections?
Washington, DC (BlackNews.com) – African Americans in Washington, DC, are twice as optimistic as the general U.S. population that their financial situation will improve over the next year. However, most say they don’t have a financial game plan and many don’t know where to start, according to a new survey commissioned [...]
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“Bo” the puppy Vs. DC school children
Never mind. Your Last Name isn’t “Obama”
The kidz
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Yesterday I did a post on how government is cutting the legs off of the school choice movement in D.C.
(BTW, I forgot to remind readers yesterday that currently Washington DC spends about $14,400 PER STUDENT — one the highest expenditures per student in the nation. So this silly rebuttal out there that suggests spending more [...]
Amanda Hess (who blogs for the Washington City Paper) wrote a critical piece on my recent post “Quick! Let’s blanket them with more ‘education’”. Criticism in of itself is certainly not an issue here. In fact, I encourage it.
Hess has a problem with me placing any blame of the spread of AIDS on the homosexual [...]
Of course you have heard by now that reportedly the HIV/AIDS rate has gone up to 3% in Washington D.C. out of all places. I’ll get to the article in a minute.
While I hate to do this to my regular readers out there, I am going to repeat a quote I made several times on [...]
Now if I had to take a good guess, I would say that the majority of Black folks out here in cyberspace regardless of political persuasion support the idea that parents should have the choice on where they send their kids to school. Why? Because for a large percentage of us, we make enough money [...]
President Obama to sign budget despite earmarks breaking campaign pledge
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will break a campaign pledge against congressional earmarks and sign a budget bill laden with millions in lawmakers’ pet projects, administration officials said.
Administration budget chief Peter Orszag and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel both downplayed the $410 billion spending [...]
I talked about this issue the other day. Now there is a short youtube video with some of the kids that will be affected by cutting this school voucher program. (h/t: MM)
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Up to now, I have been using the FY 2009 budgets of various cities with a significant Black population to help readers get a picture of just how much money is being wasted in this stimulus bill. For this post I am going to put aside the stimulus bill number and compare it to the [...]
My last count of stuff that has NOTHING to do with “stimulating” the economy was $7,723,000,000. Time to add some more stuff.
$600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
$160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and [...]
Obama is not a Muslim. Because with all the pork that is in this “stimulus” bill, he would have been executed a long time ago.
As promised in the earlier related post, I added up all the non-economy stimulus pork that I found in a 30-minute look up and came up with:
$7,723,000,000
Again, there is much more [...]
Debunking Stimulus Myth: Only 3% Allotted for Road, Bridge Infrastructure Spending
By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
You’ve heard it here, there and everywhere in the news media – the time is now for a big-government economic stimulus package, not only to revive the economy, but to salvage America’s crumbling infrastructure.
That’s one of the selling points [...]
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