The point isn't skin color, or religion or economic status. The issue is exclusion, and when you're as ham-handedly race-obsessed as to put up Herman Cain as the token Black for all Republicans to almost entirely White audiences, or Ali Akbar as the Token Black for all (virtually all-White) Tea Partiers, you DO have a racial problem. As Shakespeare wrote: Methinks the Lady doth protest too much.
Parents demanded it be banned. School superintendents placed it in restricted sections of their libraries. It is the most challenged book four of the past five years, according to the American Library Association (ALA). “It” is a 32-page illustrated children’s book, And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, with illustrations by Henry Cole. The book is based upon the real story of Roy and Silo, two male penguins, who had formed a six-year bond at New...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has put together an online video which it says demonstrates the dearth of leadership demonstrated by all of the 2012 Republican candidates for president. The video, titled “Not One Candidate,” pulls together some of the most startling moments of the recent GOP presidential debates. These include such moments at the encounters as the audience cheering Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s long string of executions in the Lone Star State. Another instance included the crowd chanting...
Instead of banding together as a UNITED States, the states have clumped together in a "meee first" set of primaries that virtually assures the Golden Rule: whoever has the gold gets to rule. Increasingly, our congressional and even state campaigns are dominated by out-of-state cash. Now, with mystery rules, we may never even get to see who paid the TV stations and radio stations to run the ads that the slick political media shops come up with. No issue...
Declaring “that in many small towns in Vermont, post offices are more than just post offices-in many cases, they are the heart and soul of the town,” Sen. Bernie Sanders joined a burgeoning effort among Democrats and progressives to save the struggling U.S. Postal Service. Speaking at a postal rally in his home state, the left-leaning independent says he will host a meeting next week with Postal Service union leaders and other experts to help him draft legislation to...
Love him or hate him, you probably want to know whether Barack Obama will be re-elected to a second term next year. One might turn to the endless stream of opinion polls — which increasingly have been spelling doom and gloom for the president’s 2012 prospects. Beware of these polls, however, especially this far out from an election. They can shift dramatically, in a fairly short of period of time. Just ask Scott Brown. The first Massachusetts Republican elected...
The problem here is not that Andrew Malcolm hates Obama with a purple passion and will pounce on the slightest whiff of anything to do so. That's his opinion and opinions are, by definition, true to the opiner and as valuable as the wind that carries them. But when the opinion is based on his OPINION of a "fact," that's a bridge too far for any reputable news outlet.
September 19 was my birthday, but the folks who ran my favorite radio station didn’t give me much of a present. I drove to work that morning to discover the whole station was dying. The morning “Kirk and Mike Show” was gone, replaced by a stream of classic rock interrupted only by occasional announcements that the station would be switching over to an all-talk format. And the fact that the promos all featured soundbites from Ronald Reagan speeches left...
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