(ThyBlackMan.com) The song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” may have been recorded decades ago, first by Otis Redding and later by the Rolling Stones, but its message is still true today. Its lyrics, “I’ve tried, and tried” strike a resonant chord with anyone who ever felt they received less than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Obviously, one of the most pressing foreign-policy issues facing President Trump’s administration concerns North Korea. Questions of how far the fat, hedonistic little hamster who currently runs that nation will go toward the acquisition of strategic nuclear weapons and what he might do with them are certainly of grave ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The reason Republicans can’t “come together” on a repeal-and-replacement plan for Obamacare is that the American people haven’t come together on what they want. True, polls show Obamacare remains unpopular. But the various Republican replacement proposals have polled even worse. And when you break down the answers, Obamacare is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even though I am black, I was raised on Superman’s; truth, justice and the American way. I always believed Americans were the world’s good guys. As a kid, I watched my mom cry over “I Love Lucy” TV stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz getting a divorce. I remember our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Putin makes Trump look like the lightweight he is, and that makes the American people look like lightweights. Leaders all over the world know that the best way to get whatever they want out of Donald Trump is to give him a parade, because Trump is a self-absorbed idiot, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Chicago has some of the strictest gun restrictions in the United States with some of the highest rates of gun violence. Gang members are not buying them legally, and the police are pulling guns off the street on a daily basis, so where are they coming from?” http://www.activistpost.com/2016/09/gang-members-implicate-u-s-govt-dumping-crates-guns-chicago.html My brother in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s part of President Donald Trump’s recent speech in Poland: “The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is set to begin work on a report detailing advertising spending by federal agencies—particularly as it pertains to Black and Latino media companies. “After several senators joined our request, including Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Shumer, GAO sent us an update in February saying that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We have a commander-in-chief whose campaign chairman, son-in-law, and eldest son had a meeting with emissaries allegedly sent by the Russian Government to castigate the personality of Trump’s fierce competitor in the last general elections, Hillary Clinton. It is disheartening that Trump suggested on Twitter that “most politicians” would have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t agree with Arizona Senator John McCain about very much, but I was saddened by his recent diagnosis of brain cancer. He says he will be back on the Senate floor soon, sparring with Democrats. I say, “Bring it on, McCain.” McCain is a patriot. He has been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Political corruption on any level is damaging, especially if the offender is from an urban area in this country. One of the things I have personally seen over the years is that many urban politicians always talk a good game, but once they get in office, they deliberately turn their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s been so much written about the questionable relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that Benjamin Netanyahu’s influence over him has been ignored. The latest round of violence sparked by the murder of two Israeli police officers by three Palestinian gunmen outside of the Al-Aqsa Mosque puts this relationship ...