During the State of Union speech, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn, age 63) tweeted a message to a 24-year-old woman that included the letters “ilu,” short for I love you. While in some of us (I plead guilty) it conjured up ...
One part of President Obama’s State of the Union speech actually provoked some deep thinking in me: We should follow the example of a North Miami woman named Desiline Victor. When Desiline arrived at her polling place, she was told ...
Stacy Swimp, a member of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network, wasn’t impressed with President Obama’s State of the Union Address last night. In fact, he didn’t like it at all. Here is Stacy’s review of the speech: ...
White smoke will soon rise from the Vatican’s chimney (adding to the global inventory of greenhouse gases!), announcing that Roman Catholics have elected a new Pope - and it just might be the brave Cardinal from Down Under who questions ...
Yesterday the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that The General Assembly has now affirmed Gov. Bob McDonnell’s decision to order state agencies to cut back part-time employee hours to no more than 29 a week to avoid triggering a requirement under the ...
The national debt is well over $16.5 trillion. There are more than 47 million Americans now on food stamps. North Korea detonated another nuclear bomb yesterday. Close to half of the people who got free “Obamaphones” may not be eligible ...
On the 1/31/13 edition of “Real News,” Project 21 member Charles Butler tells Blaze TV’s Will Cain that politicians complaining about gun-related murders in Chicago are hypocrites who “know exactly what’s going on” in their crime-ridden communities but cannot accept ...
Writing over at the Outside the Beltway blog, Doug Mataconis has opined that "Allocating Electoral Votes By Congressional District Is A Bad Idea": For many years, and in many posts at my personal blog and here at OTB, I was ...
A small group of former football players has put together (or perhaps just appeared in) what they call (or the politicians' offices exploiting their fame calls) a "public service announcement" on gun violence. In it, the football players "demand a ...
Yesterday the Kaiser Family Foundation released a white paper which largely conceded that premiums in the individual market will likely be rising under ObamaCare due to the new benefits insurance plans must provide and the sicker people the plans are ...
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