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No Joke: The Rise of States' Rights in Today's Politics
In recent weeks, I have been as troubled by the conservative revival around nullification as I have disturbed by the progressive bloggers who have dismissed the modern-day nullifiers as “nutty.” Over at the HUFFINGTON POST, Chris Weigant recently called nullification “nutty.” Jay Bookman blogged similarly over at the ATLANTA JOURNAL- CONSTITUTION, and the tone of…
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Cleveland Tourism Video: WTF?
So, some dude named Mike Polk, who fancies himself a comedian, did a YouTube video tribute to Cleveland. The Cleveland Tourism Board video and another one he did have been making the rounds around the Internets and what not and the thing is, it’s almost funny, in a 1983 sort of way, when white people…
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Pulpit Pimps?
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, tends to say what he thinks. Recently he suggested that the AIG executives who took those hefty bonuses after their company was bailed out with taxpayer money should either “resign immediately” or “commit suicide” like their Japanese counterparts. And as controversial as that was,…
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Playing Hardball With Affirmative Action
If you missed Chris Matthews’ whacked-out tirade against affirmative action last week on his shoutfest Hardball with Chris Matthews, don’t worry. I’m guessing you’ll have plenty of opportunities to hear similar screeds in the weeks leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the affirmative action case involving promotions in the New…
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Wanda Sykes is Sorry For No Marion Barry Jokes
Comedian Wanda Sykes was killing ’em this weekend at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. The dinner, the first attended by Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, upped the glitz factor significantly in otherwise buttoned-up Washington (hence the nickname folks here employed: “Nerd Prom.”) And it was a strange sight indeed: Administration officials…
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D for Detroit
Detroiters go to the polls Tuesday to elect a mayor to finish out Kwame Kilpatrick’s unfinished second term—and then they’ll get ready to do it all over again. The prize for the winner is a city in distress. Crime is up; schools are down; and unemployment is at 20 percent. Last year, the Detroit Lions…
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Thursday's Headlines
HP: CNN Assesses Obama’s “Swagga”; Attempt Is in No Way Awkward (…) NPR:South Africa’s New Black Opposition Party Can’t Cope NS: Huge Gene Study Sheds Light on African History (So Thaaaat’s Why We’re So Fast!) USNWR: Civil Right Leaders Dissatisfied with Obama on Race Relations; CBC: “Take a Number, Pal!” NWS: Do ‘Babyfaceness’ and Warmth…
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Promises Kept
And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as a leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under…
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Why Bono, Madonna and Brangelina Cannot Save Africa
Traditional proverb: Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime. In Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working And How There is a Better Way For Africa, former Goldman Sachs and World Bank employee Dr. Dambisa Moyo adeptly posits…
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Malia and Sasha: Home Alone?
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Less than a month into their father’s presidency, Sasha and Malia Obama were seasoned passengers of Air Force One. Here, Mr. President and the first lady have the kids in-tow for a weekend trip to Chicago.…