Politics
Rahm Emanuel to End Controversial Tenure as White House Chief of Staff
By Peter Nicholas, Tribune Washington Bureau — A president’s chief of staff tends to be discreet, low-key and anonymous. Rahm Emanuel was none of these. He drove his staff with warlike intensity and a message that failure was unacceptable. During the past 20 months Emanuel insulted allies. Sparred with colleagues. Practiced an arm-twisting, old-school politics […]
Obama Issues Education Message
By Erica Werner, Associated Press WASHINGTON – Barely into the new school year, President Barack Obama issued a tough-love message to students and teachers on Monday: Their year in the classroom should be longer, and poorly performing teachers should get out. American students are falling behind some of their foreign counterparts, especially in math and […]
Should Blacks Rescue the Democrats … Again?
At the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference, the premier political event in Black America, the corridors were abuzz with conversations about the critical mid-term elections which pundits predict will be disastrous for the Democrats. And, as if on cue, the Washington Post ran a major article detailing how the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is […]
U.S. Walks Out as Iran Leader Speaks
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, NY Times — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran made a series of incendiary remarks in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, notably the claim that the United States orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks to rescue its declining economy, to reassert its weakening grip on the Middle East and […]
Jefferson Thomas of the Little Rock Nine, dies
By Adam Bernstein, Washington Post – Jefferson Thomas, one of the “Little Rock Nine” who provoked a major civil rights battle when they integrated Arkansas’ largest public high school in 1957 over the opposition of Gov. Orval E. Faubus, died Sept. 5 at a care facility in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Thomas, who was 67, had […]
On Glenn Beck and Al Sharpton’s Separate and Unequal Rallies
By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – The New York Times cyber headline “Beck and Sharpton hold parallel rallies” perhaps says it best. 47 years to the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his vision of an America where race matters less than character, two men, both self anointed heirs to his legacy and that […]
Congressman Rangel fires back at President Obama for his dignity remark
All I can say is GO CHARLIE! Why is President Obama weighing in on Congressman Rangel’s situation? More importantly, who is President Obama to say that someone should give up and leave with their dignity? What happened to innocent until proven guilty? The Obama administration should have learned something from the Shirley Sherrod debacle, or […]
GOP members blast Sarah Palin for her tweet defending Dr. Laura’s N-word rant
By by John Avlon, The Daily Beast – Sarah Palin’s post-VP nominee career has so far benefited from bomb-throwing. The process follows a tight script—a crude, semi-calculated comment is shot into the middle of a political debate via Facebook or Twitter. It gains national attention. Liberals are outraged. Conservatives rush to her defense. Sarah Palin […]