(ThyBlackMan.com) These are troubling times for President Donald Trump. His poll numbers are in the toilet. The country doesn’t trust him with the economy and doesn’t support him on what was his favorite issue, immigration. The war he started is not going well and is not popular. He needs to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Few people would openly admit it but few of them are happy. It is almost unheard of for someone to admit he or she is unhappy, especially if they are in a relationship. And with respect to marriage, this ideal of bringing people together in a loving, productive bond, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The predictable backlash against the Michael Jackson biopic came fast and furious. Many critics either panned the film or savaged it. There isn’t much middle ground. But that’s no surprise. It was that way with Michael for many of his later years. You were either wildly enthralled by him ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was raised Catholic. Not casually Catholic. My mother was the kind of Catholic who went to Mass every day. Faith was not something she talked about; it was something she did. In our aqua-blue kitchen, she had the lyrics, in white paint, “Holy Mary, dressed in blue, teach me ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the new biographical film Michael now in theaters, a fresh generation is once again being introduced to the power, mystery, and brilliance of Michael Jackson. No matter how many years pass, his catalog remains alive because it was built on melody, rhythm, drama, and emotion. Michael did not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the more amusing things about sports are some of the creative and unique athlete nicknames. While many athlete nicknames today are a shortening of the athlete’s first and last name like “A-Rod” for NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers or “KD” for NBA forward Kevin Durant, some nicknames are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Shamar Elkins is a monster. There is absolutely no other way to describe someone, anyone, who guns down eight babies. And that’s exactly what the eight innocents that he murdered are. The blame finger for his hideous crime fell quickly on two perennially troubling maladies. The plague of domestic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Marco Rubio and JD Vance have a lot in common. They are both high-ranking members of the Trump administration who aspire to be president one day. In addition to both of them serving in the U.S. Senate, Rubio and Vance say they are guided by their Catholic faith. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “We are either a united people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a Nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act as a farce ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My good friend, the late Joe Madison, would often say “Now that you know, what are you going to do about it?” Today I decided to do the same as Joe so often asked. First, the facts. Donald Trump is doing everything possible to prevent people from voting by mail and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I arrived in California in 1990 when the state was still a destination worth the move. Thirty-five years later, I have watched a systematic failure of immigration enforcement hollow out the middle of what was once the most dynamic economy in the world. The state that once led the nation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) That $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle, now gone, was a “grotesque misallocation of federal spending.” It was a form of “rent-seeking,” whereby companies seek “to dominate the bureaucracy instead of the marketplace.” Thus wrote Kyle Smith in a Wall Street Journal column titled “EVs Can’t Compete Without ...