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Obama's New Concern About the Constitution and the Supreme Court
Roughly one year after nominating Justice Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama will soon get another opportunity to name another justice to the highest court in the land. Unlike last year’s relatively smooth selection of the first Latina, this year’s nomination promises to become a protracted battle that will shine a light not just on the…
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Obama on the Offensive
President Obama upset his base last week with his announcement that off-shore drilling would be explored. He riled them up even further with his continued support for drone attacks on terror cells overseas. And although the political left will not go so far as to call the president a war criminal—as they did President Bush…
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Your Take: Why Black Folks Won't Drink the Tea (Party)
It took one word for the point to hit home: “Hypnotized.” Hearing that word from a black Tea Party patriot during a recent television interview demonstrated why so many black people want no parts of the Tea Party. I have joined my fellow black conservatives in an effort to make black America politically diverse. We…
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Your Take: Who Lost on Health Care?
After the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts, the general consensus was that health care reform was going to be put on the back burner. Even President Barack Obama seemed to say as much by burying health care reform deep in his State of the Union address in January. Obama surrendered so much on comprehensive reform…
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Evolving from Agendas to Action Items
The popular trend these days has been to state that black America does not need a specific agenda to cure its ills; that, in essence, black America’s agenda is America’s agenda. Tavis Smiley’s counterargument does ring true in many regards: Without the strength, talents and support of black America, all of America suffers. There is…
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Obama and the 'Nuclear Option' in Congress
We keep hearing that reconciliation is the “nuclear option” when it comes to health care reform. To Republicans, it is a partisan move that should not be contemplated at all because of its potential to “blow up” our method of governing, particularly when it involves such sweeping social legislation. Democrats have done a good job…
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A Bigger Blunder Than Jim Bunning's Filibuster
We just saw a big man take a big stance in Congress on the issue of spending—so big that for days he was willing to single-handedly delay a vote to extend health and unemployment benefits for thousands of jobless Americans. Republican Sen. Jim Bunning’s position that Congress should find other ways to pay for extending…
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Tavis Smiley Was Right
Tavis Smiley’s recent criticisms of the Obama administration’s failure to directly address the concerns of the black community has caused an uproar among black leaders. The Tavis haters are out in full force. It is so ironic because it seems that every time Tavis attempts to criticize and dialogue “out of love,” much of black…
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What Will Replace Tavis Smiley’s State of the Black Union?
Last February, I was heading out to Los Angeles to be a part of the annual State of the Black Union event that featured some of the greatest members of our generation of black Americans. From the conversations around dinner tables to the panels to the fundraiser concert by Prince and Sheila E., it was…
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Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
