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Cruising to Confirmation
Clinton is used to being a star on Capitol Hill, as yesterday was no exception and she began to lay out her vision and that of her president. She talked about engaging Iran, and not dealing with Hamas. She even, according to the New York Times, “struck a sharper tone toward Israel on violence in…
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Real Chance of ‘Glove’
Ann Coulter is still Ann Coulter—the same love-to-hate-her far right wing demagogue that she always was. But she’s enjoying something of a renaissance in the black community. First she was oh-so-tenderly depicted in season two of The Boondocks (“I fucks with these crab cakes”) and now she’s getting at least a modicum of traction for…
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What to do about Gitmo
Barack Obama started making me nervous with campaign-talk about closing Gitmo, and now it looks like it’s the first thing on his “to do” list. Sure, it’s a fine idea. Then, what do you DO with all those prisoners? It’s bad enough having fresh-out perverts and sex offenders moved into your neighborhood—then, you want to…
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Eddy Curry's having a rough patch
I gotta say that the gay sexual harassment charges against New York Knick Eddy Curry don’t pass muster. It sounds like a shake-down gone wild, where the accuser throws as many different types of offensive accusations in a bag and sets them on fire. The only thing missing are allegations of child pornography. It’s not…
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Sister Loss
My sister Annie Ruth Walker Hood died the morning of Dec. 27, 2008: Throughout the four days leading up to her death in Hospice, friends and I sat in ceremony, thousands of miles away, chanting, praying, meditating and speaking at times to her spirit and soul. It was a difficult transition for her; at the…
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No Need to Evacuate
The local highways will morph into parking lots, crammed with cars bumper to bumper. Bridges in Virginia will be blocked off. So, those Virginia drivers refuse to fight for air on a crowded Metro train, and decide to wait until the day of the inauguration to drive into D.C. will have to look on from…
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More Money Will Fix Everything
Banks have quite a while before their wounded lending sectors have fully healed, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday. He added that taxpayers will aid in banks’ recovery by continuing to graciously hand over their tax dollars. When will the economy’s suffering end, and why won’t it end in a week when President-elect Barack…
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Recession Proof Jobs for Black Men
I read this joint about how black men are hit harder by unemployment, and it just struck me—sadly—like a no-brainer. Last hired, first fired is the rule, and that rule always seems to hit people of color the hardest. Luckily, most of us know something about being broke, so we don’t go jumping off bridges…
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A Stately Consolation Prize
It is not what she most wanted, but it was the best of the rest. Hillary Clinton went before her colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning as the Senate began confirmation hearings on her appointment to be Secretary of State. “”America cannot solve the most pressing problems on our own, and the…
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Say It Ain't So, Joe
“Joe the Correspondent” Wurzelbacher is in Israel, “covering” the conflict in the Gaza strip, which is a big plus for a news hungry public because up to this point, it was hard to get any information about the ongoing violence—because it was only being covered by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Haaretz, The…