Politics

A Justice Department official released the following statement, according to NBC Washington: “During his regular morning meeting with senior staff, the Attorney General began experiencing symptoms including faintness and shortness of breath. As a precaution, the Attorney General was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center to undergo further evaluation.” NBC News’ Pete Williams reports that Holder,…

On Thursday, President Obama is set to launch My Brother’s Keeper, a public-private program set to empower disadvantaged black and Latino young men who, according to a White House fact sheet, are “more than six times as likely to be victims of murder than their white peers and account for almost half of the country’s…

If two-term Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick wants to be a candidate for president in 2016, he’s faced with one problematic detail: We’ve already had a black president. Patrick, who’s the Bay State’s first African-American chief executive, is openly chewing on a bid for the White House, answering “maybe” in a recent Politico interview when asked…

Like so many of you, I was outraged—but not surprised—by the Michael Dunn verdict. Just two years after Trayvon Martin was killed, another Florida jury has told us what we already know: Our nation’s gun laws do not protect the innocent, the justice system is deeply unfair and our media culture continues to create an…

Vice President Joe Biden made headlines twice yesterday. He told ABC’s Barbara Walters that he won’t be standing down in the 2016 White House race, even if Hillary Clinton jumps in, saying that “Whether she runs or not will not affect my decision.” And that’s—as Biden might say—a pretty “gutsy” call. On a lighter note,…

Today marks a somber two-year anniversary, mourning the brutal and untimely death of Trayvon Martin. It also marks another full year in which nothing has been done to change the “Stand your ground” law partly responsible for Trayvon’s death. Oh, we’ve been hearing quite a bit—but, that doesn’t necessarily mean the same as actual movement…

A Washington lobbyist is preparing legislation to ban gay athletes from playing in the National Football League, according to Rawstory. Washington lobbyist Jack Burkman issued a statement viewed by Rawstory that states that his firm, J.M. Burkman & Associates, believes that “we are losing our decency as a nation.” The statement also asks parents to…

Katrina Pierson isn’t who most people picture when they think of the Tea Party. The movement is, according to a recent poll, 83 percent white, and the 37-year-old political activist is a black woman who, given her multiracial background, might have been derisively described by fellow Texan Ted Nugent as a “mongrel”—just as he referred…