Politics

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

Although President Obama’s popularity is still decent in the United States, his popularity among Muslims throughout the world has fallen. One year after President Obama’s pioneering speech in Cairo, he is viewed with more skepticism by the Muslim world. His decline in popularity is tied to his perceived lack of follow-through on bridging Western and…

Fresh from the cuckoo file, the GOP has apologized to BP on behalf of the American people for President Obama’s “shakedown.” The “shakedown” that they speak of is the $20 billion escrow account that BP set up for the immeasurable amount of damage that the oil spill has caused the Gulf region. Rep. Joe Barton…

Those who do not know boxing are always doubtful of a counter-puncher’s skill—until they see him serve a resounding, high-classed, painful whipping. Negative comments about the counter-puncher are often generated if he does not huff and puff like someone’s cartoon of a bad guy in professional wrestling. But after all of the criticism of President…