By Chuck Hobbs, Esq. LOWERING THE DEBT CEILING One has to respect New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie, who is one of the more consistent critics of the escalating federal debt ceiling. Christie recently informed Republicans that if they fail to do as promised by reducing federal debt, that he would campaign against them in […]
Commentary
Show Me Your Passbook
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux – I am glad that President Barack Obama has a sense of humor about the birthers. I don’t, and I am disgusted that Donald Trump, lacking in both sense and scruples, was able to push the President to releasing his “long form” birth certificate. Now that the birth certificate has been […]
Urban Jobs Act – A Powerful Weapon in the War on Unemployment
By Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal #19) – Last week, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York enlisted in the war on urban unemployment with the introduction of the Urban Jobs Act. Gillibrand’s Urban Jobs Act is the Senate version of House bill, H.R. 683, which was introduced earlier this year by New York […]
Politicians Start Your Engines – The Gantt Report
By Lucius Gantt – The Florida State Senate and House of Representatives concluded their Legislative Session as they have always done. The majority Republican body did what Democrats do when they are in power. The voters that elected the GOP power brokers put the Republicans first and the Republicans put the people last! In the […]
How Sunday’s Celebrity Apprentice highlighted Donald Trump’s problems with women and race
By Eric Deggans (TampaBay.com) – Talk about awful timing: In a media moment where even straight-arrow political reporter Bob Schieffer is calling his statements about the president racist, reality TV star and possible presidential candidate Donald Trump presided over an episode of Celebrity Apprentice Sunday in which all three black women still on the show […]
Chuck Hobbs’ Monday Musings on Tax Incentives for Big Oil Companies, Ghost of Terrorist Past, Florida Court Overhaul Fails
By Chuck Hobbs, Esq. TAX SUBSIDIES FOR BIG OIL Four dollar per gallon gas! Just reading it on the page hurts almost as much as dropping 80 bucks to fill up my car. For all of the righteous indignation we have as Americans about soaring gas prices, the issue is what to do about it? […]
Trump’s disrespect for President Obama
By Etan Thomas, Special to CNN – (CNN) — Donald Trump’s most recent challenge to President Barack Obama took me back to my collegiate years at Syracuse University. I had studied for two weeks straight for a calculus class, harder than I had ever studied in my life. After I completed my exam, I was […]
SEAL of Approval
By Raynard Jackson – Of course all the talk this week has been of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by the elite Navy SEAL Team 6. I was hoping, at least in the U.S., that this event would allow America to come together, if only for a moment, and reflect on what […]
Is Revenge the Answer?
By Carl DeWayne West (TBT News Service) – First, let me be one of the millions of well wishers thanking President Barack Obama for putting an end to a horrible chapter in America during my lifetime. I salute him and his decorated team of advisors. I’d like to especially thank our military that executed a […]