"Put your faith in God and keep your powder dry. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition"
Monday night I flipped on CSPAN and saw Ohio Rep. and former Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich presenting a 35-count impeachment bill against President George W. Bush. As you can note from the various times Speaker Nancy Pelosi has to bring the House under order during Kucinch’s reading of his bill (Kucinich: “The House is not under order!” Pelosi: grueling sigh followed by annoyed taps “Please proceed”), the rest of …
The day’s finally come. Hillary’s out. Obama’s in. And he’s made Black History before Hillary could make Feminine History (actually Hillary’s made plenty of Feminine History with her campaign – but, truth be told, both have also made straight-up general history). The Democrats are officially unified, even if I’m reading New York Times stories that say some former Clinton supporters are now donating money to the McCain campaign. While …
They’ve done it again: MinnPost is raiding former Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch’s political image as a public servant for the down-trodden, or, to put it another way, reaffirming Hatch’s public reputation as a hot-tempered, hypocritical bastard.
Here are some excerpts from Eric Black’s old-fashioned investigative report that give us an idea of …
Here’s an entertaining video montage of news anchors (and Dan Marino) losing their cool. I jacked it from Steve Perry at Minnesota Monitor, and he jacked it from Gawker. I guess jacking shit is part of the online game.
Note a young, sleazy Bill O’Reilly at the 1:00 minute mark
It’s easy for any white person to call Jeremiah Wright’s recent actions egotistical. For whites, Wright is an easy Black target, as media coverage has proved this past week. Wednesday’s New York Times editorial claimed Wright’s recent statements were full of “racism” and “paranoia.” Both it and a Star Tribune editorial praised Sen. Obama’s moves …
Sure, I could write about tonight’s big Pennsylvania primary win for Hillary, but goddamn it, we all knew it was going to happen. Nothing has changed; Obama is still ahead in the delegate count and has most of the Democratic super delegates at his fingertips. Besides, there are tons of primaries still ahead and more pressing news to be told.
After a week of speculation, the rumors are true: according to the …
Talking Points Memo just posted a new Hillary Clinton campaign ad, featuring flashes of Osama Bin Laden that are so brief it seems as if they are meant to be picked up by the viewer subconsciously. Is she attempting to dramatize the remaining bitter shreds of U.S. democracy? You be the judge.
But what really puts the aches in my back …
While most Minnesotans have stuck comedian Al Franken in their minds as the next Minnesota DFL Senate candidate, St. Thomas peace studies professor Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer is still vying for the party’s upcoming June nomination. Despite barely being mentioned in the local media, Nelson-Pallmeyer surpassed Mike Ceresi in the race and is slowly but surely winning over …
The biggest key to winning an election is projecting a public image. It surpasses where candidates stand on the issues, how they work with others, what their personalities are like, and just about every other necessary factor needed to run a successful campaign. Remember when then-Minnesota Attorney General and 2006 DFL gubernatorial candidate Mike Hatch called a reporter a “Republican whore” one week before the election? Hatch’s loss to Gov. …
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about Barack Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and how his name and reputation in the Black Community was being undermined and exploited by a media circus centered on a few YouTube clips of him criticizing the U.S. government. Now that the circus is over and labeled as old news, it might be an opportune time to present Rev. Wright in his own …
For the few weeks before the looped YouTube videos of Rev. Jeremiah Wright shifted half of the Democratic Presidential coverage to racial matters (the other half of the coverage being focused on the sinking economy), the topic of the talk was the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The trade agreement, which was put into law by President Clinton in 1993, restricts obstacles that corporations used to face when they moved their goods …
It’s best to begin this post by noting that 81 percent of the United States believe this country is headed toward a bleak future. Only a third of people believe that the next generation will be better off than the current generation. Fewer than half of parents — 46 percent — expect their children to enjoy a better standard of living than they themselves do. The other day, Fed Chairman Ben …
In a time when consumers’ views of the economy are gloomier than they’ve been in five years, the Presidential candidates are devoting more and more rhetoric to fixing our stalled economy. While the Democratic candidates announced government remedies to help heal the situation, Republican candidate John McCain got more specific about his solution to the pending …
On the surface, Ole Hovde looks like any other university student killing time at a café. Although he’s indoors, he keeps a beanie on his head, perhaps as a way to cope with the constant scrambling that accompanies everyday college life. Resting beside him is a sociology textbook thats been temporarily swapped for the latest issue of The Onion. His concentration is frequently interrupted by text …
In the past few days, news anchors, columnists and cable pundits have been rigorously masturbating over denouncing Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the apparent anti-American jihadist. Decades after Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Huey P. Newton, white pundits are still acting as surprised as ever when they see a black man radically speak out against this country. …