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Holidays Near, Black Unemployment Soars 2008-11-10 23:14:14 The nation’s unemployment rate climbed to 6.5 percent last month, the Labor Department reported on Friday. But the black unemployment rate remained substantially higher at 11.1 percent, nearly double the rate for whites.
The 6.5 percent overall rate marked a 14-year high in joblessness and was creating a huge impact on ordinary Americans as 240,000 jobs [...] Read more:Black
, Holidays
, Unemployment
Will you be part of the Obamabidenation ? 2008-11-10 20:54:55 After the dust settles and all is said and done will you as Americans get behind Barack Obama and make a genuine effort to support the man and his policies. I ask that we please stop with the first African American stuff and concentrate on the President Of The United States stuff. This is a [...]
Obama’s Chance To Reshape Courts: Four Dozen Openings 2008-11-09 11:54:19 WASHINGTON — President-elect Obama
will enter office with an immediate opportunity to begin shaping the federal courts by filling four dozen openings on trial and appeals courts.
Federal judges, with lifetime appointments, can be a president’s most enduring legacy. President Bush receives uniformly high marks from Republicans, even those who criticized him on other issues, for [...] Read more:Dozen
GOP Hypocrites: We like our new African-American President! 2008-11-09 11:21:51 By ;Tom D’Antoni
The Huffington Post
Republican leaders, from President
Bush and John McCain on down, have fallen all over themselves to hail Barack Obama’s election as the first African
-American
president. In McCain’s concession speech, where he had to briefly calm down the mob he and Palin had stoked during the campaign with their coded appeals to [...]
The Unraveling Of The GOP 2008-11-07 19:58:38 Many people don’t even know what GOP stands for so for the record it stands for Grand Ol Party which refers to the Republican Party. Well the other night it was just that, the Grand Old Party (old being the operative word here). Could you imagine how far our country would be right now if [...]
Soul Men Review 2008-11-07 14:48:19 Perhaps the saddest thing about the new comedy Soul Men, the latest comedy by director Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man, Welcome Home Brother Charles, Roll Bounce) the much less talented cousin of Spike, is that the funny and much loved comedian Bernie Mac will never get another opportunity to make up for the misfortune [...]
Katt Williams Arrested 2008-11-07 11:12:28 It’s been a wild week for “Pimp Chronicles” comedian Williams
.htm">Katt Williams
. First, there were false rumors over the weekend that he had died in a plane crash. Then, according to the New York Daily News, Williams spent most of Thursday in jail on weapons charges, but posted bail with just enough time to make it [...]
The Night We’ve Been Waiting For 2008-11-05 21:52:32 Yes we can and yes we did.Last night America came together as a country and decided that we had had enough of the last eight years.We also made a decision to judge people by the content of their character instead of the color or their skin.Don’t get me wrong I live in a Republican stronghole and [...] Read more:Night
, Waiting
Michael Vick Got A Raw Deal ? 2008-11-26 15:57:44 I believe with all my heart that Michael
got thrown under the bus. There is something fundamentally wrong when we throw a man in prison for dogs. Man has dominion over the earth if you believe the bible, but people have a tendency to take things to far and Peta and the likes are those [...] Read more:Michael Vick
Why do we let companies get to big to fail ? 2008-11-24 18:19:12 All I've heard for the last 2 month's is that this company or that company is to big to let go under,meanwhile we continue to let them get bigger and bigger. Take The JP Morgan Chase Washington Mutual buy out, this created an even bigger behemoth.I feel we are being taken for a big long [...]
Integration killed the black community 2008-11-19 21:37:14 As I look around my small community
I remember when we contributed to our communities and people in the community helped raise the children. Now as I look around my community all I see is empty houses. Houses abandoned by the very people who grew up in them, and were then afforded the opportunity to [...]
Seeking ways to keep ex-prisoners from jails 2008-11-18 20:21:23 By ANGELA DELLI SANTI • Associated Press Writer
TRENTON — How to help released prisoners readjust to life on the outside rather than commit new crimes and recycle through the criminal justice system is the subject of three upcoming public hearings being convened by New Jersey's Democratic leader in the Assembly.
Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman [...] Read more:Seeking
Warning: Secretary Clinton Would Be Intriguer 2008-11-18 20:16:01 By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Hopefully, it's just a rumor started by the Clinton
istas. Is Barack Obama seriously considering appointing Hillary Clinton as his Secretary
of State?
If he pulls the trigger on that appointment, he will deserve what he gets!
Obama would do well to remember the history of Harry Truman and Jimmy Byrnes in 1944. [...]
The pregnant man myth 2008-11-17 21:03:15 Why is it that everytime I turn on the TV I have to be grossed out with this pregnant
man BS ? Look folks, this is not a pregnant man. This is a woman who decided that she wanted some man features and now they're saying it's a pregnant man. This is one thing I [...]
More dumb priest continued 2008-11-16 15:44:04 Well it seems like not only do we have dumb priest, but now the parishioners get in on the act. This is the follow-up to the article I wrote "more dumb priest come out of the woodwork" Folks you're following the lamb to the slaughter here. Can you in all good conscience really follow some one as divisive [...]
More dumb priest come out of the woodwork 2008-11-14 19:56:28 Can't the Catholic church control these priest ? For the life of me I've never heard of anything like this in my life. I can't remember when a white guy got elected President and a priest said such stupid stuff.I find it disheartening that our country has stooped so low as to even entertain this type [...]
Civil Rights Groups File Federal Lawsuit 2008-11-13 15:25:29 WASHINGTON & NEW ORLEANS, Nov 12, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today civil rights and fair housing groups filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development and the Louisiana Recovery Authority. The suit alleges that the Road Home, Louisiana's Hurricane Katrina recovery program, discriminates against African-American homeowners in New Orleans.
The [...] Read more:Civil
, Civil Rights
, Federal
, Groups
, Lawsuit
, Rights
The Big Bailout Lie !! 2008-11-11 21:18:20 Once again we are being suckered into using tax dollars to bail out companies bad decisions. For the last 20 years we have been telling Detroit to get their act together only to have them ignore us. Now they are telling us if we don't bail them out it will be chaos.I say let them go. [...]
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