Politics

USA Today is reporting that the U.S. unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level in more than 2 1/2 years as employers stepped up hiring in response to the slowly improving economy. The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate dropped sharply to 8.6 percent last month from 9 percent in October.…

In 2008 young African Americans set an all-time voter-turnout record. Fifty-eight percent of black 18- to 29-year-olds voted — the highest rate that any ethnic or racial group of young adults has ever achieved. Barack Obama deserved some credit, but young African Americans had posted relatively high turnout rates ever since the 1980s, often matching…

In an entry at his Hutchinson Report News blog, Earl Ofari Hutchinson argues that since GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain refuses to exit the race, the party will eventually shut him out. Hutchinson says that Cain has served his purpose, which was to be an amusing sideshow to give the real candidates time to burnish…

So, brother Herman, how’s that jungle fever thing working out for you?  Absurd as it seems, black businessman Herman Cain’s apparent weakness for white and white-looking women may wind up playing a pivotal role in the presidential election, if Cain finally realizes that the jig is up and pulls out of a contest he was…

The photos and description of what took place at Occupy Chapel Hill, an Occupy Wall Street offshoot in North Carolina, resemble the second tenet of the so-called Powell Doctrine. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, Colin Powell said that “force, when used, should be overwhelming and…

It was “pretty simple,” Ginger White, a Georgia businesswoman, said of her alleged 13-year affair with GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in a report released by Atlanta-based Fox 5 on Monday. “I was aware that he was married,” she said in the report. “And I was also aware I was involved in a very inappropriate…

During the Occupy Wall Street crackdown a few weeks ago — when efforts to shut down the Occupy movement hit cities all across the country — there was a cry of outrage. We read about and witnessed attacks by police on peaceful Occupiers that seemed very foreign to some. The police’s blatant disregard for the…

Written by Chris L. Jenkins They believed that their son was innocent but were afraid that Virginia’s penal system would grab hold of him and never let go. So Cherri Dulaney and Edgar Coker Sr. told 15-year-old Edgar Jr. to plead guilty to raping a 14-year-old friend. Their court-appointed attorney told them that was better…

“Here we go again.” That’s what Herman Cain said his wife, Gloria, uttered in response to the latest accusation of sexual wrongdoing aimed at him: that he carried on a “long-term” romantic affair with a woman. “It is someone that I know, who is an acquaintance, that I thought was a friend,” he told CNN…

As Penn State continues to deal with the fallout from the Jerry Sandusky case, another university is also dealing with its own child sexual-abuse scandal. On Sunday, Syracuse University fired assistant baskeball coach Bernie Fine, who faces an investigation for child-molestation claims. Though the emerging details of the Syracuse case get more bizarre by the…