(ThyBlackMan.com) Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, just announced his decision. For his presidential vote on a mail-in ballot, he wrote in the failed 2008 Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Apparently, Kasich found Wendell Willkie too difficult to spell. For the umpteenth time, Donald Trump, out of 2016’s 17 Republican ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On March 23, 2010, The Affordable Healtcare Act transfigured healthcare. Six months later, concerns over the program’s cost was a catalyst that helped Republicans win control of the House of Representatives during the mid-term elections. Now, one might ask, why did healthcare need to be reformed? Escalating costs threatened to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How ironic that this week Americans celebrated Halloween. This is the time of year when a lot of children and some adults dress up in scary costumes and go trick-or-treating collecting candy or various other treats. Many TV networks also use this occasion to dust off a lot of classic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that the cost for a health-insurance plan obtained through the exchanges set up by the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law better known as Obamacare, would increase by 25% on average for the 2017 coverage year.” http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-much-obamacare-premiums-are-going-up-in-every-state-2016-10 The corporate mind control apparatus is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, having a net worth of $81.8 billion, and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, having a net worth of $70.4 billion, are the nation’s two richest men. They are at the top of the Forbes 400 list of America’s superrich individuals, people who have net worths of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The early voting returns show two unsurprising things. One is that black voters are turning out in smaller numbers in some areas than they did in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. The other is that the relatively lighter turnout is in marked contrast to the near record turnout among ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When challenged pursuant to Hillary Clinton’s email server scandal, a woman who supports Clinton was heard to tell a woman who supports Donald Trump: “But [Clinton] apologized for that.” When told of the conversation, I was offended by the flawed reasoning of the Clinton supporter but I wasn’t surprised. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful corporations and the wealthy. For me, that means that we need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women’s rights, on behalf of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This country is about to elect a new President. The problem is both Trump and Clinton are awful choices for a variety of reasons. Hillary Clinton’s scandals stretch from Travelgate to Filegate to destroying files to emails to Benghazi to her praise of Margaret Sanger who was a follower of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The call for a moratorium on charter schools by the NAACP is a case of “Throwing the baby out with the bath water.” While most Black folks are concentrating on Hillary and Donald, the largest and oldest “Colored” organization approved an internal resolution calling for a halt to the “expansion ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP presidential contender Donald Trump giddily and predictably wasted no time when FBI Director James Comey announced that the agency was looking at more Clinton emails. For the umpteenth time, Donald Trump branded her a criminal and demanded that Americans not let her “criminal enterprise” into the Oval Office. No ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By now, we all know that FBI Director James Comey has announced his agency has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, just 11 days before the election. Although this development certainly appears to be a major setback for Hillary, knowing that she and other high-ranking Democrats are pressuring Comey ...