This weekend marks the 50th commemoration of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma and across the nation, for it was 50 years ago when peaceful protesters were beaten to a pulp because they had the nerve to demand equal voting rights. Bloody…
Year: 2015
Why the heck would Republicans be interested in anything to do with Selma? I am disappointed that the Congressional Black Caucus and Rep. John Lewis would expect these Republicans to care about anything to do with the Civil Rights movement. Rep….
Some (Republicans) will look high and low to find a way to criticize this report, but no matter what they say, this is good news. U.S. employers extended a healthy streak of hiring in February by adding 295,000 jobs, the…
Not fo nuffin’, but Jon Stewart again hit it on the head… when he called the Republican’s response to Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, “the longest blow-job a Jewish man ever received!” In the House chamber, there was no such reflecting. Netanyahu…
All the six year old cancer patient wanted was a playground in her yard, but the Homeowners Association denied it because, well, there is a certain look they must maintain. A Missouri girl battling cancer was thrilled to learn a…
“Editors-in-chief of broadcast channels will watch and make sure that nothing the prime minister says can be construed as election campaigning,” Salim Joubran, the head of Israel’s central election committee, said in an order two weeks ago. “Any campaigning will…
Republicans can pat themselves on the backs for this one. The managed to join the leader of a foreign nation in denouncing the president of the United States for trying to bring a peaceful resolution to Iran and their nuclear…
MSN reports that Michael Jordan joined the likes of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the swelling ranks of the world’s billionaires, according to the annual Forbes’ World’s Billionaires List for 2015. The 29th annual list, released Monday, showed Jordan jumping on…
On the eve of Netanyahu’s divisive and political speech to a joint session of congress, the US and Iran continued their negotiations to derail Iran’s nuclear ambitions. By the shores of Lake Geneva in the town of Montreux, US Secretary…
No, reports say her students were not in the classroom at the time, but they found her body hanging in the classroom when they reported for class. Jillian Jacobson, 31, was pronounced dead at the scene at El Dorado High…
Mitch McConnell, moderate. I thought I’d never see that characterization, but after last week’s embarrassing, incompetent, dangerous gambit the House Republicans played, he’s looking like the only GOP adult in the room. John Boehner seems to have lost his caucus…