Politics
Supporters and opponents painted vastly different portraits of the Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday… Confirming Kagan for a lifetime seat on the court is one of the last pieces of business senators will attend to before leaving for a month long vacation. Read more:
Last night the US Senate voted to allow aides for Senator John Ensign (R-NV) to testify before a grand jury in Washington. Senator Ensign is being investigated by the Dept. of Justice for breaking federal lobby laws in the wake of his nine-month extramarital affair…Read more:
WASHINGTON — Former committee chairman Rep. Charles Rangel attempted a last-minute plea deal Tuesday to head off a House ethics trial that could embarrass him and damage Democrats facing potentially severe election losses. The talks between Rangel’s lawyer and the House ethics committee’s nonpartisan attorneys were confirmed by ethics Chairman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. She said […]
Maureen Dowd of the New York Times is a white woman. She is also a woman who feels that President Obama isn’t black enough. Well, at least his cabinet isn’t. Dowd made an interesting argument recently that when it comes to race, Obama and his crew are simply screwing up the issue left and right. […]
“Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.” – Sen. Barack Obama in 2008. Perhaps it’s time for President Barack Obama to re-read his speeches and confront the issue of race head-on. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/baw_commentary_news/20553
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block. A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbor Wendi Villasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her family scrambles to get out of […]
Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly is all over the Internet today for telling an African American college professor that he looks like a cocaine dealer. Wednesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor” included a discussion with Columbia University professor Marc Lamont Hill about beefing up security on the Mexican border. Read more
Connecticut Republicans are backing former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as their Senate nominee. McMahon was endorsed at a state GOP convention Friday night. “We are incredibly pleased with the growing momentum behind this campaign and the better-than-expected show of support we received from Republican leaders and activists around the state,” said McMahon in a statement […]
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The Arizona legislature is requesting that President Barack Obama show the state his birth certificate before seeking reelection in 2012. The Associated Press reports that a state House committee approved a measure yesterday — sponsored by 40 of Arizona’s 90 state legislators — that would require presidential candidates to submit documentation proving their eligibility to […]
VIA NEWSONE.com: WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama hailed Wednesday’s one-year-old economic stimulus law as an accomplishment that staved off another Great Depression and kept up to 2 million people on the job. Still, with millions still out of work and losing patience, Obama acknowledged that to them, “It doesn’t yet feel like much of a […]
