Politics

Barack Obama enjoys his relationship with the media and certainly uses it to his advantage. But it’s reaching ‘Fatal Attraction’-like levels and if the groupie love trend from the media doesn’t stop soon, it’ll only be a matter of time before he comes home to find his pet rabbit boiling on the stove. The sometimes-troubling…

When Do the Right Thing was released 20 years ago, a generation of black writers and intellectuals became instantly radicalized by Spike Lee and Public Enemy’s vision of black America. Their fist-pumping black nationalist slingshots, along with The Autobiography of Malcolm X, were the perfect antidote for the isolation and alienation many black youth felt…

If you’ve staked out a position on Iran that’s roughly midway between Jonah Goldberg and Ayatollah Khamenei, then you’re probably on the right track. And that’s pretty much where President Barack Obama stands. Obama’s reaction to the “results” of Iran’s June 12th election and the subsequent uprising have been judicious: “We in the United States…

Victor Davis Hanson is confused about the national logic since November 4th, 2008. Some things just don’t seem to make much sense and he’s jotted down a ten-item list to help out. THE BUZZ will keep score with Zing points. Hanson writes: “1. The budget. Wanting to cut $17 billion from the budget, as President…

Iran’s supreme leader says last week’s election was above board and that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory was “definitive.” Addressing a crowd at Tehran University during Friday prayers, the Ayatollah Khamenei dismissed vote-rigging charges and asked that those who take exception with the results use the proper legal avenues to do so. He did not call for…

NewsOne is reporting that George W. Bush has ended his silence embargo on President Obama. To wit: “I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor, I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t…

In this segment, Dayo and Matt riff on health care. You can check out the entire conversation here.

Renaissance 2010 shuts down underperforming Chicago schools and turns them around through contract or charter school. In the turnaround process, lots of experienced teachers get the pink slip. Many of those slipped are Black women. This was Secretary of Education Duncan’s baby when he was CEO of Chicago public schools. He’s trying to take this…

Barack Obama still does not support gay marriage, but he supports benefits for gay federal employees and their partners. Today, the president will sign a memorandum granting health care and other benefits to the partners of federal employees CNN reports. This move comes after criticism over Obama’s support for the Defense of Marriage Act, which…

As Father’s Day approaches, we often reflect on the male role models, father figures and patriarchs who are instrumental in our lives. We hold them in high regard because they possess qualities we admire: courage and strength, perseverance and determination, humility and grace. To DeJuan Correira, his “Uncle Troy” embodies all of these attributes. A…