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Why Obama Should Tax Weaves
If you’ve not yet seen the most recent pictures of Naomi Campbell’s bald head, I suggest you click here and look. It’s amazing to see how grotesque a two-inch by two-inch unblemished patch of skin can be. It’s not hideous because it’s bald, mind you—Alek Wek is bald and gorgeous—but because the damage was so…
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Byrd's Replacement Continues to Color the Government
If anything good has come from the loss of West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, who died yesterday at the age of 92, it’s another milestone in the changing of America’s political face. As you no doubt know, there had never been a black president before Barack Obama. As you may not have known, however, for…
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General McChrystal's Real Mistake
Now that General Stanley McChrystal has “resigned” following the publication of a Rolling Stone article showing him and his team to be recalcitrant to Obama administration authority, criticism of the Desert Storm veteran has been swift. Obama said he’d accepted the general’s resignation without protest, as it was “the right thing for our mission in…
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Why You Should Support This Tea Party Candidate
Update: Tim Scott defeated Paul Thurmond in last night’s runoff election, making him almost a shoo-in to win his majority Republican district in November. Assuming he takes the general election, Scott will be the first black Republican in Congress since 2003, when Oklahoman J.C. Watts retired. As I mentioned above, this is a truly momentous…
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Is BP's Escrow Account the Right Move Now?
On Wednesday the White House released a statement explaining that BP had agreed to set aside $20 billion for an escrow account through which legitimate claims of damages resulting from the Gulf oil spill would be paid. Kenneth Feinberg, who formerly headed the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, will be the independent claims administrator, and…
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Take Two Plaques and Call Us in the Morning
If ever anyone is in need of a grim yet unvarnished example of both America’s choked bureaucracy and her unwillingness to approach, grapple with and truly understand her horrifically racist past, they need only be directed to what took place in the Mansfield Room in the U.S. Capitol building on June 16, 2010, at 3:00…
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Obama's Oil Spill Address Ends Up Addressing Little
On the 512th day of his presidency, Barack Obama used his first Oval Office address to try and allay the nation’s fears about the countless barrels of oil currently spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, what he termed the “worst environmental disaster” in American history. Though the president prefaced things by saying he intended to…
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How Slavery Spoiled the World Cup
While speaking last evening with a friend, I fell upon the realization that, besides hundreds of years of financial, emotional and political strife, slavery has also engendered in the African American community a difficulty watching the World Cup. Before I encounter the faceless rage of The Internet, let me preface the rest of this post…
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Besides BP, Obama Needs to Address America's Oil Addiction
It seems as if Barack Obama’s reaction to the Gulf oil spill thus far has closely followed the famous Kübler-Ross model of grief management. Denial was when he waited far too long to take the reins from BP, thus allowing the company to flail about helplessly for days while little to no real action took…
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The Alvin Greene Saga's Racist Underbelly
Yesterday, South Carolina Democratic Party representative Todd Rutherford told reporters that the increasingly strange Alvin Greene saga was “not even funny, it’s just sad.” It’s a sentiment that’s becoming increasingly common, as Greene, the surprise winner of South Carolina’s Democratic Senate primary, finds himself ever-deeper in the muddy water that is American politics. Despite the…
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