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Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a nationally acclaimed author and political analyst. He has authored ten books; his articles are published in newspapers and magazines nationally in the United States. Three of his books have been published in other languages. He is also a social and political analyst and he appears on such TV programs as CNN, MSBC, NPR, The O'Reilly Show, American Urban Radio Network, and local Los Angeles television and radio stations as well. He is an associate editor at New America Media and a regular contributor to Black News.com, Alternet.com, BlackAmericaWeb.Com and the Huffington Post. He does a weekly commentary on KJLH Radio in Los Angeles.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 President Obama's Budget Hits the Mark Despite the GOP
The great fear a year ago when President Obama unveiled his budget for 2012 was that he caved to the GOP and Tea Party hardliners and meat axed dozens of vital programs and agencies
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 GOP Gave Obama No Choice but to Go After the Fat Cats (3 comments)
President Obama's reversal on his decision to keep hands off the fundraising efforts of his campaign aligned super PACS raised a few eyebrows among campaign finance reform advocates. This seemed like a betrayal of Obama's oft stated position that the relentless chase and dependence on fat cat donors to bankroll campaigns has gone way off the deep-end.
Sunday, February 5, 2012 Where are Romney's Blacks?
An NAACP notable, that is a local NAACP branch notable in Texas, praised GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul to the skies after the barrage of attacks on Paul for the racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic digs in his Ron Paul Survival Report newsletter. Herman Cain endorsed Paul rival Newt Gingrich.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Not Racist Ron Paul, But Opportunist Ron Paul (19 comments)
GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is not a racist. But he's a class A opportunist. The smoking gun proof is his much maligned racist newsletters. Proof, not because they spewed racial bile, or that Paul pretty much knew that the writers of the racially loaded quips were fanning racial flames. Enough persons that were familiar with Paul's Ron Paul Survival Report have publicly blown the lid off of Paul. They made it clear t
Sunday, January 29, 2012 This Time President Obama Literally in Gun Toters Sights (2 comments)
The bullet riddled tee shirt of President Obama posted brazenly on Facebook by seven semi-automatic gun toting men among them a Peoria, Arizona police sergeant was much more than the by now standard non-stop litany of racist cartoons, depictions, web postings, and kooky loose talk threats against President Obama. The gun toting men and the police sergeant were taking target practice on the president's likeness at an undisclose
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Will Gingrich Bring White Supremacy Back to the White House? (1 comments)
Put "President" in front of Newt Gingrich and there's an even chance "white supremacy" could be put in front of his presidential moniker. The suddenly surging Gingrich upped his racially loaded pandering scorecard with the resurface of a handwritten first draft of a series of talks he prepared in 1993 a couple of years before his ascendancy to House Speaker for his prescription for "renewing American civilization".
Friday, January 20, 2012 President's State of the Union Speech Will be Under Fire--Again
Before President Obama uttered a word of his second State of the Union Speech last January, he heard the loud chorus of criticism, attacks, denunciations, and just plain boos from the usual suspects. That is GOP officials, Tea Party leaders and followers, and the pack of professional Obama loathers, the right wing bloggers, talk show hosts and websites.
Thursday, January 19, 2012 Why the GOP Presidential Candidates Talk Race (in Code) (4 comments)
South Carolina Democratic Congressman James Clyburn lambasted the GOP presidential candidates for talking race in code. There's plenty of ammunition for the attack with the stream of race tinged references Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Mitt Romney made to food stamps, welfare, work ethics, and an entitlement society. Then there are the racially loaded newsletters from Ron Paul that resurfaced.
Monday, January 16, 2012 Why Bain Won't be Romney's Bain
GOP presidential contenders Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich, GOP strategist Karl Rove, and a few other GOP stalwarts loudly claim that the Bain issue is a potential presidential game loser for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Monday, January 9, 2012 Dumping on "The Obamas" (2 comments)
It was only a matter of time before the enshrined celebrity tabloid obsession would ensnare the Obama's. They have been ripe for the pickings of a media that for the past two decades has successfully parlayed gossip, innuendo, rumor, half truths and outright lies into a hugely profitable growth industry.
Monday, January 2, 2012 Ron Paul's Fetish on Civil Rights (12 comments)
GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul just can't seem to help himself when it comes to his fetish on a law which has been on the books for nearly five decades and which has long since been rendered a moot point by even avowed white supremacists. That's the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Saturday, December 31, 2011 Iowa's a Sideshow It's Still Romney Versus Obama (1 comments)
The Iowa caucus is a sideshow, a good one, but a sideshow nonetheless. The one man who knows that is President Obama. He, and his reelection team, publicly slam the only challenger that can make the 2012 presidential race competitive, if not an actual horse race. That's Mitt Romney.
Sunday, December 25, 2011 Paul Flunks the R (Racism) Test for Good Reason (15 comments)
Things got worse for GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul when his GOP presidential rival Newt Gingrich called Paul on the carpet for purported racially inflammatory utterances he made in the 1990s in his officially approved newsletters, Ron Paul's Political Report and Ron Paul's Freedom Report which brought in a considerable haul of cash.
Monday, December 19, 2011 The Nightmare of Ron Paul's Iowa Win (28 comments)
Ron Paul will win the Iowa Caucus no matter whether he actually comes out on top or not. A win for him simply means a solid showing which he'll make.
Friday, December 9, 2011 The GOP Hit on Holder is a Hit on Obama
Even before President Obama publicly announced that he would tap Eric Holder for Attorney General, he knew Holder would be a tough sell job. So he quietly asked key Senate Republicans whether they would go to war to block his confirmation. The GOP response was at best a tepid, and a far from satisfactory no.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 With Cain out Turn the Glare on Gingrich's Racial Skeletons (1 comments)
With GOP presidential contender Herman Cain's presidential candidacy effectively dead, now's a good time to turn a hard glare on the suddenly surging GOP Presidential contender Newt Gingrich's racial skeletons.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 GOP Will Close Down Cain's Sideshow Act
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain was predictably defiant when a pack of GOP pundits and insiders strongly hinted that he should fold up his candidacy tent. Cain said he was in the race to stay and did his by now patented bizarre, double-speak, Bill Clinton style denial that he did not have sex with that woman.
Saturday, November 26, 2011 Don't Expect Much Diversity from "President" Romney
Sooner or later presumptive GOP presidential nominee frontrunner Mitt Romney will have to publicly answer which Romney will show up on the issue of race and diversity if he indeed gets the GOP nomination and snatches the White House in 2012.
Monday, November 21, 2011 If Clarence Thomas Was Not Justice Thomas He'd Likely be Behind Bars (2 comments)
If Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was not Justice Thomas but an ordinary Thomas he'd be behind bars. He is the ultra-conservative's equivalent of the Mafia "Made Man." The tag confers untouchability on the bearer.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 GOP Presidential Candidates Tongue Tied on Paterno (2 comments)
GOP presidential candidates have been loose lipped on any and every public policy issue imaginable. But suddenly they have all have lost their speech on the Penn State scandal. They have uttered barely a peep about the scandal.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Democrats Play Dangerous Game in Shunning President Obama (6 comments)
The excuses some Democrats give for their chill toward backing President Obama's reelection bid would fill up a legal pad. He's made much too nice with the GOP. He's put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. He hasn't pushed aggressively enough for a full blown FDR style jobs program.
Friday, November 11, 2011 Did Race Explain Penn State's Blind Eye to Sex Scandal?
Enough of the ghoulish, sordid facts are known about the Penn State University child sex scandal to say this. The alleged child rapes were known by some athletic department members, up to and including the football program boss, JoePa, Joe Paterno. The rumors, or worse, knowledge of the rapes may have been known by or at least heard of by others still unnamed that could eventually be a winding tangle through university staff,
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Cain, Not Sex, will sink Cain (3 comments)
GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain was emphatic when asked at his Scottsdale, Arizona press conference whether he'd drop out of the race over the lengthening sexual harassment charges against him. "No way" he said. He's right about sexual harassment not being the torpedo that will sink his presidential hopeful ship. But he's wrong about his candidacy's eventual sink.
Sunday, November 6, 2011 How The GOP Will Again Try To Hijack The White (1 comments)
President Obama and national and GOP officials agree on one thing. The battle for the White House in 2012 will likely again come down to who wins the handful of election deciding battleground states. At the top of that list are Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Virginia.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Conservative's Predictable Race Card Play With Cain (1 comments)
It was predictable and laughable. The pack of conservative talk show hosts, bloggers, and web sites all quickly snatched a worn page from Clarence Thomas and screamed that Cain was being mugged by the liberal media on sex harassment charges because he was a black conservative.
Sunday, October 30, 2011 Cain May Not Be A Flash In The Pan (1 comments)
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain's win in the Iowa straw poll is more disturbing proof that his candidacy may not be the flash in the pan that many think.
Friday, October 28, 2011 Hillary For President Talk Is Just Another Nasty Way To Slam Obama (2 comments)
Hillary Clinton can say "no" to the pesky pleas for her to run for president in 2012 until she's blue in the face. It won't make any difference. There will be yet another poll that shows she's far more popular than President Obama as the Democratic presidential standard bearer.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 The Presidential Battle For Latino Voters Will Be Fierce
GOP leaders are again salivating at the thought that they can make like George W. Bush who got more than 40 percent of the Latino vote in the 2004 presidential election and snatch a significant number of supposedly frustrated, disenchanted Latino voters from the Democrats in 2012.
Saturday, October 22, 2011 President Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Should Silence The Naysayers (4 comments)
President Obama's Iraq troop withdrawal should finally silence the naysayers. And there have been many of them. GOP leaders pound him relentlessly for being weak, ineffectual, and indecisive on military and foreign policy aims and goals.
Friday, October 21, 2011 Why Cain Was Applauded For Trashing The Unemployed
The cheers that GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain got from the GOP faithful at the Las Vegas GOP presidential debate for his full throated defense of Wall Street and his trash of the unemployed for being unemployed was no surprise.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Cain's Black Voter Fantasy (3 comments)
GOP Presidential Herman Cain again solemnly told a pack of pesky reporters in New Hampshire recently that he was absolutely confident that in a head to head match-up against President Obama that he could snatch a third of the black vote.
Thursday, October 13, 2011 The Unthinkable: a Cain Versus Obama Match-Up (1 comments)
A month ago it was unthinkable. That is a head to head match-up between GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain and President Obama. It's still unlikely, but Cain's quick rise to the top of the GOP presidential candidate heap makes Cain versus Obama now at least thinkable.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Why Herman Cain Can Peddle the Delusion Racism is Dead
Herman Cain knew two things were certain to happen when he blathered that Racism doesn't hold anybody back (though he added a tiny caveat "in a big way." One it would get the media tongues wagging furiously. The second is that it would increase the rapture of ultra conservatives for him. He was right.
Friday, October 7, 2011 President Obama Doesn't Deserve the Knock from Wall Street Occupiers (8 comments)
The Wall Street occupiers withering knock at corporate and financial greed, manipulation and corruption is much deserved. Their knock at former President Bush and Congress for giving Wall Street financial houses the taxpayers open checkbook to bail them out with virtually no requirement that they in turn bail out distressed homeowners and struggling businesses is much deserved.
Thursday, October 6, 2011 Palin No Longer GOP's Worst Nightmare, and Obama Best Dream
Sarah Palin got it part right in her statement bowing out as a potential GOP presidential contender when she said that if she ran as an independent it would insure President Obama's reelection. She could have added that she would have insured his reelection if she had grabbed the GOP presidential nomination.
Thursday, September 29, 2011 Dr. Conrad Murray, Not Michael Jackson is on Trial
Dr. Conrad Murray's defense, his only real defense against the charge of involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson, is a simple one.
Monday, September 26, 2011 Does Cain's Florida Win Prove the GOP Isn't Racist? (4 comments)
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain's wipe out of the GOP presidential field in the Florida straw poll got much attention partly because he was so far behind presumptive GOP Presidential front runners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 Progressives Prescription for a GOP White House---Challenge President Obama (12 comments)
Ralph Nader and Cornell West have gone from incessantly bashing, hectoring, and haranguing President Obama to actively trying to get a Democrat to launch a primary challenge against him.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Poverty is America's Taboo Word (1 comments)
There are two new rituals about the yearly census reports on poverty in America. One is that the census figures show more Americans continue to sink into poverty. The poverty rate this year jumped to the highest level in nearly two decades. Those hardest hit remain the same.
Monday, September 12, 2011 Party Ending for the Tea Party? (7 comments)
There are two things that have distinguished the tea party. With the help of an awestruck, fawning media, it has been able to harness public disaffection with Washington beltway politicians and a large segment of white conservative anger and loath of President Obama's policies.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 A Decade Later 9/11 Zany Conspiracy Theories Still Alive and Well (14 comments)
The decade since the hijacked 747s rammed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon hasn't changed one thing. Millions of Americans still fervently believe that the 9/11 terror attacks were part of a well conceived, well-planned diabolical staged act. A poll commissioned by the BBC found that one in seven Americans still think that 9/11 was a staged act.
Thursday, September 1, 2011 President Obama Caught Between the Left and Right on Jobs (1 comments)
Labor leaders, the Congressional Black Caucus, and many liberal Democrats hope Vice President Joe Biden is wrong. In an interview on the eve of President Obama's much anticipated jobs proposals speech.
Monday, August 29, 2011 President Obama's Continuing White Problem (9 comments)
Democratic presidential candidate Obama faced the problem. President Obama faces the problem. And now President Obama in his re-election bid faces the problem. The majority of whites still will not accept his presidency.
Sunday, August 21, 2011 The GOP's Phony "Plantationism" Charge Against Democrats
Florida GOP Congressman Allen West in his trademark shoot from the lip style made brief news recently when he dredged out the worn term" plantationism" to describe the alleged relationship between blacks and Democrats.
Friday, August 19, 2011 President Obama's Black Jobs Dilemma (1 comments)
Congresswoman Maxine Waters minced no words when she said that members of the Congressional Black Caucus are "frustrated" and impatient that President Obama is not doing enough to tackle the crisis problem of black unemployment.
Friday, August 12, 2011 Rick Perry's Texas Miracle Con Job (1 comments)
Texas governor and reported GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is the nation's greatest political con artist. His so called Texas Miracle has been totally debunked as a fraud. Yet, Perry with generous help from conservative business leaders, tea party acolytes, and suddenly revved up evangelicals will keep the con very much alive.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 Knock Off the Run Hillary Run Chatter (3 comments)
This has become a virtual ritual. Just about every month, or more like after each new fresh crisis that President Obama has to ward off, the chant begins "Run Hillary Run." The chant goes up because so the argument goes, Obama is too weak, vacillating, and conciliatory to the GOP.
Monday, August 8, 2011 GOP Would Love Nader's Fantasy of a Party Challenge to Obama (7 comments)
Ralph Nader is a predictable as the sun rising in the Sahara in July. He wasted no time in jumping all over President Obama following the debt ceiling deal. He made his by now standard plea for someone to challenge Obama in a Democratic primary campaign or better still from his view a third party challenge to Obama.
Thursday, August 4, 2011 Writing the Tea Party Epitaph is Not Just Premature but Absurd (5 comments)
Moments after President Obama put his John Hancock on the debt ceiling deal, a Northern California tea party member claimed that when he proudly wore his tea party tee shirt to his local grocery store a half dozen persons immediately asked him
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Why President Obama Can't Make Like FDR on Jobs
President Obama can probably recite this line in his sleep. Be bold, and rip a page from Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal playbook institute crash Works Project Administration and Civilian Conservation Corp. type programs.
Sunday, July 24, 2011 Fingering Alleged Right Winger in Norway Shooting Didn't Stop the Muslim Bashing
The speedy apprehension, public identification and incriminating right wing, white supremacist rants of alleged Norwegian mass murderer A nders Behring Breivik partially doused the red hot fire building to launch yet another anti-Muslim witch hunt.
Friday, July 22, 2011 Democrats Hung Obama Out on the GOP Limb (4 comments)
The script is well worn. President Obama floats a proposal on the debt ceiling and the budget that appears to give away too much to the GOP. The Democrats howl that Obama is betraying principles to get the GOP to make a deal.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Drop the Ethics Charges Against Waters
The revelation that two former House Ethics Committee staffers secretly leaked materials to Republicans on the Committee and possibly outside the Committee to hammer California Congresswoman Maxine Waters and New York Congressman Charles Rangel is a near textbook example of how politics doesn't just taint congressional ethics cases, but makes them a bitter joke.
Friday, July 15, 2011 Obama Has No Choice But to Tap The Fat Cats (6 comments)
The news reports that President Obama was courting large campaign donors stirred complaints that this will put him even deeper into political hock to fat cat donors and the corporate rich if re-elected.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 The GOP's Debt Ceiling War Not About Debt But About Obama (1 comments)
The GOP's war over America's debt ceiling war is not about America's debt, it's about President Obama. The debt ceiling debate can't be separated from the GOP's never-ending hunt for any issue that can taint, embarrass, and ultimately weaken the Obama presidency.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 Casey Anthony is Not OJ in White Female Face (1 comments)
Casey Anthony is not O.J. Simpson in white female face. The only real reason that Anthony is even mentioned in the same breath as O.J. is because she was acquitted of first degree murder. And many of those that bothered to pay any attention to the case fervently believed she was guilty and expected her to be convicted. The resemblance ends abruptly there.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 Why President Obama Still Says No to Gay Marriage (1 comments)
President Obama thundered to the throngs at the recent LGBT Leadership Council fund raising bash in New York, "I believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every couple in the country." This was not hyperbole that he had to shout to one of the country's most prominent, and influential gay rights activists off his back about his opposition to gay marriage.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 Clarence Thomas Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief with Weiner Downfall (12 comments)
Every Democrat from the White House down screamed loudly for New York Representative Anthony Weiner to resign, and he finally did. But it's not a Democrat that's breathing the biggest sigh of relief at Weiner's downfall. It's Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Sunday, June 5, 2011 "President" Romney's White (Male) House
GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney was asked during the 2008 GOP presidential primary campaign what he thought about diversity. He gave the stock answer that he supported it in government and corporations.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Palin Presidential Scam Stays in High Gear (2 comments)
Sarah Palin has no chance at winning the presidency. And that's what makes Palin's incessant presidential scam intriguing and amusing. It's intriguing because she gets away with, and amusing because most in the media and the GOP know it's a scam but go along with it for sheer thrill, titillation, and even chuckles. The latest to feed the Palin presidential scam is the man who foisted Palin on the nation, John McCain.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Herman Cain and GOP Presidential Nomination is an Oxymoron
The name Herman Cain and the words GOP presidential nominee is a pitiable oxymoron. But the irrepressible talk show host and former Godfather Pizza CEO still thinks that he can stand the GOP on its head and get it to nominate him, an African-American, as its 2012 presidential standard bearer.
Saturday, May 21, 2011 Why West's Slur of President Obama Got a Headline (2 comments)
Princeton University professor Cornell West's silly, shoot-from the lip slur of President Obama as a black puppet predictably got the headline that he knew it would for two reasons.
Thursday, May 19, 2011 Victim Bashing Runs Amok in the IMF Rape Case (3 comments)
Former IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn loudly declared that he didn't rape a maid in his hotel room during his stay in New York. Strauss-Kahn is certainly entitled to proclaim his innocence. Under the law he is just that, innocent until convicted in a court of law.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Schwarzenegger Is Just the Latest in GOP Sexual Hypocrisy
Former GOP California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's terse apologetic statement that he fathered a child out of wed lock a decade ago is quite a contrast to what's been standard operating procedure for the GOP's family values, bible thumping moralists that literally get caught with their pants down.
Sunday, May 15, 2011 Method to the Madness in Ron Paul's War against Civil Rights (8 comments)
GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul still wages war against civil rights. And we really shouldn't be surprised since Paul has repeatedly got into hot water nearly every time he opens his mouth about anything that remotely touches on race. But this time Paul sailed past the outer limits with his defiant boast that he would not have voted for the landmark 1964 civil rights bill.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Why the GOP Can't Get Rid of its Clowns (4 comments)
GOP strategists and analysts sounded desperate even panicked when they implore Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels to toss his hat in the presidential rink. Their panic to get Daniels in the race has less to do with any special magic that they think he'll bring to a campaign to oust president Obama then their mounting horror at how the best known potential GOP presidential candidates have turned the party into a three ring circus.
Monday, May 2, 2011 Bin Laden Kill Shatters Obama Soft on Terrorism Myth (1 comments)
During the 2008 presidential election campaign, the GOP hit plan on then Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama was simple. Pound him relentlessly as soft on the war on terrorism and the military. GOP presidents Reagan, Bush Sr., and especially George W. Bush in 2004 in his reelection fight with Democratic presidential foe Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, used this ploy masterfully against their Democratic opponents.
Thursday, April 28, 2011 More Trump Silliness--Now it's Obama's Grades (6 comments)
Would be GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump wasted no time eagerly snatching at another silly, deliberately distracting, but hopefully for him media grabbing attention issue when his crusade to get President Obama to release his birth certificate came to a quick end when Obama released it.
Monday, April 18, 2011 GOP Blows it again with Official's Animal Depiction of President Obama (7 comments)
Orange County, California GOP Central Committee member Marilyn Davenport's email blast depicting President Obama and his family as monkeys was sick, vile, and disgusting. But it was not the worst part of it. Even her witless, dunderhead defense of the photo as just a "joke," was not the worst part of her slur either.
Friday, April 8, 2011 Whither the Tea Party? (1 comments)
The first rumbling that the party may be ending is in, and for more than a few it's none too soon. The party in this case is the Tea Party. Two things in rapid succession signaled that the light may be dimming for the party.
Sunday, April 3, 2011 The GOP Makes Obama's re-election Easier by the Day (17 comments)
President Obama's re-election bid announcement was pro forma. There was never any doubt whether he'd run again, and if the GOP has anything to do with it, the odds are looking better every day that he'll win in a walk away. It didn't start out that way, though. The first year of his White House tenure, things looked shaky for re-election.
Saturday, March 26, 2011 Fraudulent Birther Controversy Trump's Only Presidential Trump
Real Estate tycoon Donald Trump's talk about a presidential bid is take your pick: a bad joke, a cheap publicity stunt, or the delusional raving of a guy with too much money, too much ego, and way too much time on his hands to stroke both. But Trump did manage to figure out one angle that was a sure fire, can't miss way to get attention. That was to dredge up the Birther's lie about President Obama.
Sunday, March 20, 2011 Impeach Obama Over Libya, You Got to Be Kidding (14 comments)
Perennial congressional gadfly Dennis Kucinich completely lost his political screws when he even uttered the word "impeachment" of President Obama over his action in Libya. Kucinich has often been the lone, outraged voice, in blistering Obama on everything from his tax cut compromise with the GOP to his Afghan war policy, but the Libya outburst made no sense by even Kucinich's radical rhetoric standards.
Sunday, March 6, 2011 Why So Many White Men Still Don't Like President Obama (6 comments)
The latest Pew Research Center survey found a lot of things that should cheer President Obama. Voter anger against government even among those that identify as Tea Party backers is down, the Wisconsin union standoff hasn't stirred any widespread anti-labor backlash, and there's more tolerance than ever for same sex marriage. But the poll also found a troubling note, a continuing troubling note for the White House, and a happy
Sunday, February 20, 2011 Revisiting the FBI's Dirty War on Black America
The tale of FBI informant Ernest Withers is now well known. He spent years busily snapping photos of many major civil rights happenings, actions, and doings of civil rights leaders, most notably Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He got close-up shots of them because either through disinterest, Wither's flattery, or simply naivety, they trusted him to record their sometimes most intimate moments.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Obama's Budget Ax: Why the Neediest People Should Be the Most Afraid (1 comments)
President Obama will unveil his budget for 2012 on February 14. The administration has so far been guarded about detailing how deeply the budget ax will slice. What is certain, however, is that the cuts will be painful and that the neediest Americans will feel the worst of that pain. More than 44 million Americans are living in poverty--a fact that Obama barely referenced in his State of the Union speech. Yet a huge chunk of f
Thursday, February 3, 2011 Egypt Buries the Myth That Obama Would Botch a Foreign Crisis (2 comments)
The biggest potential stumbling block to then Democratic presidential candidate Obama's White House bid in 2008 was not race, but the knock against him that when confronted with a major foreign policy crisis he'd botch it. This would signal America's allies and avowed foes that America's leader was weak, indecisive, and a terrible choice to deal with the colossal pressures of the problems of the Middle East, Iran, North Korea,
Monday, January 31, 2011 Why President Obama Continually Hails President Reagan
The shock waves from liberal and moderate Democrats not to mention then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's two rivals Hillary Clinton and John Edwards were palpable in January, 2008. Obama had committed political heresy when he heaped mild praise on former President Ronald Reagan in an interview with the editorial board of the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Friday, January 28, 2011 President Obama Sends the Right Signal on Drug War (2 comments)
President Obama uttered the words in a recent You Tube Townhall that drug reform advocates have long wanted to hear from a president. His blunt comment that "drug legalization is a legitimate topic for debate" came in response to a question from a former law enforcement officer.
Sunday, January 23, 2011 President Obama's State of the Union Speech Already under Fire (3 comments)
President Obama's second State of the Union Speech scheduled for Tuesday, January 25 is under fire before he has even uttered one word of it. This was predictable. The State of the Union speech is generally one of the most watched and listened to political speeches.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Reagan Was No Friend of Blacks (8 comments)
It is no surprise that former President Reagan's son, conservative political consultant Michael Reagan would add his unabashed and wildly inaccurate historical revisionism about Reagan with his absolutely ridiculous assertion in a Fox News op-ed piece that dad, Reagan was a "better friend of blacks" than President Obama. Normally that would be the cause for hysterical laughter
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 Phony Comparison between Palin's Lethal Crosshairs Map and Democrats' Map
The loops that Tea Party leaders, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and more staid conservative analysts, and even Barbara Walters has been amazing to watch to let Sarah Palin off the hook for her lethal crosshairs map that targeted House Democrat Gabriella Giffords and nineteen other Democrats is absolutely amazing to see and hear.
Sunday, January 9, 2011 Arizona's Innocents Reap What Palin & Company Have Sowed (3 comments)
The instant Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others were gunned down at a public meet-and-greet in Tucson, leaving six dead--including a federal judge, several retirees, and a 9-year-old student council representative--Tea Party grandmaster Sarah Palin and leaders of her movement swung into damage-control mode. Palin offered condolences to the families of the shooting victims and called for prayers for peace and justi
Thursday, December 23, 2010 Don't Blame Kobe for Turkey's Armenian Genocide
Who would have thought that Kim Kardashian would take off on Kobe Bryant for anything other than their shared sports and celebrity status? Kardashian in addition has carved out a growth industry in flesh baring, body ogling and sex titillation. But there's Kardashian lambasting Bryant for his two year deal pitching the glories of riding the skies on Turk Hava Yollari AO, Turkish Airlines, the country's state-run airlines.
Sunday, December 19, 2010 Michael Vick's Dog Would be the Luckiest Dog on the Planet (9 comments)
Any dog that Michael Vick owned would be the luckiest dog on the planet. But a dog won't get that honor, at least not just yet. And it's dumb, and silly not to give Vick the chance to give a dog the love, care and devotion that he would give the lucky pet. There are two reasons why Vick won't get to own a pet now.
Saturday, December 11, 2010 Nader Slurs President Obama---Again (10 comments)
Leave it to Ralph Nader to do a Tea Party like slur of President Obama the few times a reporter comes calling. During the presidential campaign a peeved, and unnerved Nader didn't stop at criticizing Obama for what he considered a bought and paid for Beltway insider.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 More Say they Like Bush than Obama Grates to No End (3 comments)
The CNN poll in October that found that almost as many people said they liked George W. Bush as President Obama seemed like it was either a case of some drunk counting the numbers, or a headline grabbing ploy by CNN on a slow news day.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 Progressives and Liberal Democrats are Blowing Hot Air Obama's Tax Cut Deal (6 comments)
Progressives and liberal Democrats are blowing hot air on President Obama's tax cut deal. They include saber rattling of a Senate filibuster, screams for everyone from defeated Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold to Hillary Clinton to challenge Obama in the Democratic primary, polls on left blogs and websites
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Stop the Rush to Judgment on Call for Clinton to Resign over WikiLeaks (1 comments)
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must explain what she meant when she allegedly signed the much railed at orders in April and July 2009 that allege that she ordered US diplomats to spy on UN officials and others. But that hasn't stopped the rush to judgment in the calls for her resignation. It's not just a premature call, it's a silly call.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 President Obama should turn a Deaf Ear to chatter About Not Running Again (7 comments)
President Obama should turn a deaf ear to the silly chatter about him not running again. He's heard plenty of that in the weeks since the midterm election drubbing. Much of the chatter hasn't come from the usual, hostile GOP and Tea Party suspects. They've flatly said their goal is to make Obama a failed, flawed, president and presidency.
Sunday, November 21, 2010 Why Carville Won't Apologize to Obama for his Balls Crack (5 comments)
Not surprisingly the always dependable controversial quotable especially when it come to knocking President Obama Democratic strategist James Carville was petulant and defiant when asked whether he'd apologize for his latest Obama wisecrack. The dig was Carville's supposedly play on an old joke when he cracked that Hillary Clinton should give Obama one of her balls.
Friday, November 19, 2010 Surely, No One Should Be Surprised that Palin Plays the Race Card
The advance PR flacks for HarperCollins knew exactly what they were doing when they calculatedly leaked a provocative passage from Sara Palin's newest ego stroke book, America by Heart. The passage incited race.
Monday, November 8, 2010 Bush's Love fest for President Obama (1 comments)
Former President George W. Bush seems to be about the only top Republican in the land who hasn't taken a shot at President Obama. There's not one, I repeat, not one single word of criticism of Obama's performance to date in the White House in Bush's near 500 page memoir, Decision Points.
Sunday, October 24, 2010 The House is duty-bound to Bring Articles of Impeachment against Clarence Thomas (26 comments)
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas can and should be impeached. The case and the grounds for impeachment proceedings against him are virtually iron-clad. The evidence is compelling that Thomas perjured himself in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his court confirmation hearings in 1991. The evidence is equally compelling that this constituted lying under oath to Congress during the hearings.
Saturday, October 23, 2010 Think of the Two Decade Embarrassment of Thomas We Would Have Been Spared If We had known about Thomas's Porn Alleged Ob (4 comments)
Here's a tantalizing what if. What if the nation had known about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's alleged pornographic obsession in 1991. Lillian McEwen, Thomas's one time paramour, says that Thomas was virtually a serial peep artist at women's breasts, their bra sizes, and kept his head buried in porn magazines, and ogled porn films.
