Thursday, March 28, 2024

Unveiling the Truth: How Los Angeles’s Crime Drop Challenges the Crime Wave Narrative.

March 12, 2024 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Here were the facts about crime in Los Angeles in 2023. The number of homicides plunged. The number of violent crimes plunged. The number of victims shot plunged. The number of property crimes dropped. The number of hate crimes plunged. According to a report by the LAPD on crime in the city and by extension the county crime... [Read more...]

Black Unemployment Rate Rises to 10% as Cicley Gay, Chair of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Contemplates Supporting Black Americans Economically.

March 11, 2024 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Here is an excerpt of a statement from Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) in regard to their mission as a result of a recent lawsuit brought by Melinda Abdullah: “The problems we face as a community are too great for us to be divided. The only way to deal with the critical issues of police brutality, ending... [Read more...]

Inflation Through the Lens of Breakfast Cereal: A Tale of Disparity and Disconnection.

March 11, 2024 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Remember the parable of the blind men and the elephant? As each approached an elephant and tried to describe it, they came up with wildly disparate answers. One thought it a snake, another a tree, another a trunk. Because they were blind, they could not see the big picture; they described the part of the elephant they could touch. Inflation... [Read more...]

Joe Biden’s State of the Union: A Critical Examination of Leadership, Policy, and America’s Future.

March 11, 2024 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) No, I am not some “Debbie Downer,” nor do I bet against America. However, last week’s State of the Union address was political cherry-picking for 77 minutes of carefully chosen bloviating. There are so many polls now showing that the American people do not believe the state of our union is strong. Now, if you are a... [Read more...]

Black Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans and White Americans: Paralyzed by Fear – Joe Biden and America’s Struggle with Its Own Remedies.

March 9, 2024 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) “We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had... [Read more...]

Whales, Wind Farms, and Waged Wars: Unraveling the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Misinformation Campaign.

March 8, 2024 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Whoever would have thought fossil fuel industry front groups would make whales and other marine species a cultural wedge issue? However, thanks to a deception campaign targeting wind energy that’s exactly where we find ourselves. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center in New Jersey rescues and rehabilitates live beached animals... [Read more...]

Resisting Warrantless Spying: The Crucial Stand of Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republicans Against FISA Reauthorization.

March 8, 2024 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republicans needs to keep one set of numbers in mind – 35-2 – when being pushed to reauthorize the Biden administration’s unconstitutional warrantless spying on American citizens under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), as some members of Congress talk about inserting... [Read more...]

Unanimous Supreme Court Overturns Colorado’s Landmark Ruling on Donald Trump’s 2024 Ballot Ineligibility: A Test of America’s Constitutional Commitment.

March 8, 2024 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) In December 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision based on the “insurrection” clause of the 14th Amendment, ruled former President Donald Trump ineligible to appear on Colorado’s 2024 presidential primary ballot. Never mind that Trump has never been indicted for, let alone convicted of insurrection. Immediately... [Read more...]

Donald Trump-Proofing Europe: Preparing for the Potential Perils of a Second Presidency.

March 7, 2024 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Our European allies are seeing what many of us in America have seen since Donald Trump came onto the political scene. With concerns about what a second Trump presidency may bring, Europe is now Trump-proofing itself in preparation for the worst. During his four years in office, former President Trump shocked America’s closest... [Read more...]

The U.S. Supreme Court Didn’t Rule Against Teaching Creationism!!

March 6, 2024 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Many people, including those in the law profession, mistakenly think that the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against the teaching of creationism in public schools. However, to the surprise of many, that is not true! The world of atheism, which the court also judged to be a belief system, joyfully points to the Court’s... [Read more...]

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