Politics
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The South Shall Rise Again: Haley and Scott Win GOP Nominations in SC
History is in the making in the confederate state of South Carolina. Republicans overwhelmingly chose Nikki Haley, an Indian-American woman, to run for governor in South Carolina and easily nominated Tim Scott, in line to become the former Confederate state’s first black GOP congressman in more than a century. Haley is one step closer to…
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President Obama to Give Gays More Benefits
From our “It’s about time” file, gays will be able to leave work to care for an ailing child. President Obama continues to slowly but surely chip away at discrimination against gays by tweaking the Family and Medical Leave Act. President Obama has made a number of small changes that have increased benefits to gays…
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General to Apologize for Anti-Administration Comments
by Ernesto Londoño and Michael D. Shear KABUL — The top U.S. general in Afghanistan is headed to Washington to apologize for a magazine profile that includes highly critical remarks by him and his staff about top Obama administration officials involved in Afghanistan policy. The article in this week’s Rolling Stone magazine is certain to…
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The Wild, Wild Midwest: 54 People Shot in Chicago over the Weekend
What’s really going on? Chicago has had yet another weekend of mayhem with 54 shootings. 54 shootings? Ten people were killed including four black males between the ages of 16 and 20, who were found naked, shot to death and lying face down on railroad property on the South Side. A baby girl suffered a…
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Fox Accuses Obama of Giving Part of Arizona Back to Mexico
Straight from the “We can’t make this stuff up” file, Fox News has accused President Obama of giving Arizona back to Mexico. Yes, you read right. The network known for being extremely free with their facts is under fire for allegedly making up stuff about the president, again. During an America Live report, guest host…
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Obama's Summer Homework
President Barack Obama did the most CEO-like thing he’s ever done on Tuesday: He under-promised and over-delivered. And if he plans to get reelected in 2012, that’s what he’ll keep doing. Having lowered the bar for himself by first taking a by-the-numbers overnight visit to the Gulf Coast and then delivering a hum-drum national address…
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Colbert I. King Calls Out Limbaugh and Gingrich on Fatherhood
Colbert I. King was feeling froggy on Father’s Day. He pointed out the contradictory behavior of GOP darlings Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich, who have taken President Obama to task for being from a “broken home.” Some of his critiques include their serial marriages, i.e. “broken homes,” and their propensity for younger women and affairs.…
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Memo to BP: You Can Run, but You Can't Hide
Heavyweight champion Joe Louis could easily have been describing our moment many years ago when he famously warned his opponents, ”You can run, but you can’t hide.” In the context of covered-up child abuse by the Vatican, an environmental disaster of epic proportions created by British Petroleum, and the destructive motion through the room of…
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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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Is BP's Escrow Account the Right Move Now?
On Wednesday the White House released a statement explaining that BP had agreed to set aside $20 billion for an escrow account through which legitimate claims of damages resulting from the Gulf oil spill would be paid. Kenneth Feinberg, who formerly headed the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, will be the independent claims administrator, and…