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It's Time for President Obama to Become a Leader
Who is President Barack Obama? The question gives you pause, doesn’t it? That’s because there is no quick or obvious answer. This circumstance, more than any other, is a critical problem for Obama as he prepares for the 112th Congress to assume office. We still don’t know who Obama is, what he is committed to…
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Waiting While Black?
On Oct. 30, when thousands were gathered in Washington, D.C., for Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity, Dori Maynard faced a moment of insanity. Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, was thrown out of a Hampton Inn in the nation’s capital for reasons that are still unexplained. In a recent…
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Bringing Diversity to the Obama Economic Team
Although her former boss, Anne Mulcahy, has been mentioned as a candidate, Burns should be considered for the position of chief economic adviser on her own record. Raised in New York by a single mother, Burns earned two degrees in engineering, then spent her entire career at Xerox. She played a key role in Mulcahy’s…
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Black Auto Designers Lead the Way at GM and Chrysler
At the 2010 New York Auto Show, Ed Welburn, General Motors’ chief automobile designer, sat between his creations. On his left, glistening on a slowly moving turntable, was a silver, supercharged, 556-horsepower Cadillac CTS-V. On his right, a CTS-V station wagon that can do 150 mph. When asked why he made a family car that…
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Disaffection With Obama May Be His Opportunity
This week’s primetime presidential address from the Oval Office was designed to present an image of confidence. The language of the president’s speech was strong. The symbolism captured the might of the White House. Even the pre-Oval Office speech in Pensacola hangar took a presidential tone intended to convince a nation to unite behind him,…
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NEWS STAND: Nurses Threaten Strike, 200 Preemies Dead in South Africa, Bodies in Mexican Mine, Obama and Seniors
State officials plan to seek order blocking 12,000 nurses from strikinghttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/state-officials-plan-to-seek-order-to-block-12000-nurses-from-striking-thursday.htmlDon’t get sick in California. State officials are planning to seek an order to block 12,000 nurses from striking at all five university hospitals. Nurses are striking because of the universities’ “unwillingness to provide adequate staffing that puts patients at risk.” In preparation for the…
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GM, Nissan Recall Over 1M Vehicles
GM and Nissan join Toyota in the ranks of car makers who need to take their stuff back because it may get somebody killed General Motors Co. is recalling 1.3 million Chevrolet and Pontiac vehicles in North America to fix power-steering systems after federal regulators received more than 1,100 consumer complaints about failures. Nissan Motor…
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Why Mitt Romney Is Like Barack Obama
When President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney square off at the debate podium in the fall of 2012, it might be harder than you think to tell the two of them apart. They’re both Harvard lawyers. They’re both millionaires and devoted family men. As a college student, Romney completed a requisite Mormon…
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New York Times Takes Black Caucus To Task
The New York Times focused a harsh light on the Congressional Black Caucus this Sunday. The article “In Black Caucus, a Fund-Raising Powerhouse,” focuses on the caucus’ ability to raise money from large corporations and its support – and sometimes, change of position – after a large donation. The opening example reported how the organization,…
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How Barack Obama Is Paving the Way for a Palin Presidency
It does not take a pollster, partisan or psychic to see a harbinger of things to come in Massachusetts voters’ choice of a Republican to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. If Barack Obama’s next three years in the White House are anything like his first, he will surely be a one-term president. And for black…