(ThyBlackMan.com) Texas governor and reported GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is the nation’s greatest political con artist. His so called “Texas Miracle” has been totally debunked as a fraud. Yet Perry, with generous help from conservative business leaders, tea party acolytes, and suddenly revved up evangelicals will keep the con ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Reading the mainstream liberal press, one might be brainwashed to believe Obama is the Messiah incarnate and Republicans are spawns of Satan.  All this garbage talk that somehow Tea Party members of Congress brought America to the brink of default and are collectively responsible for the country receiving its ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I spent a fair amount of time on the phone yesterday with a couple of New York City radio show hosts (Bob Pickett and James Mtume)  for whom I have a tremendous amount of respect.  We were planning a show on Sunday in which we will discuss the debt ceiling ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “Me and Tavis, we’re going to remind you who Martin really was.” – Dr. Cornel West Now that Dr. Cornel West and television personality Tavis Smiley have set out like an Afro-centric version of “Thelma and Louise” on a tour denouncing the Obama administration for what the two decry ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down.” These are some lyrics from one of my favorite’s songs when I was in graduate school. They remind me unfortunately of our current commander in chief – Barack Obama. Especially given his recent, tail between the leg recapitulation of requesting a balanced ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s an old saying which admonishes us to “take care of home first.” There’s another which says “know which side your bread is buttered.” Or how about, “dance with who brung ya.” All of them offer the same general pearls of wisdom; knowing where your true support base resides ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Obama supporters have long insisted that The Man simply knows things most of us don’t. As president, he’s got access to the facts and figures. He’s looking further, playing sixth-dimensional chess while most of us can barely get our minds around checkers. They just might be right. If there’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Ralph Nader is as predictable as the sun rising in the Sahara in July. He wasted no time in jumping all over President Obama following the debt ceiling deal. He made his by now standard plea for someone to challenge Obama in a Democratic primary campaign, or better still ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no right more precious in our nation than the right of citizens to cast a ballot on Election Day. That is why generations of Americans have sacrificed and even died in efforts to expand the right to vote.  Yet across the country, powerful corporate interests and the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Playing the race card is no longer working for the Democratic Party.  That stunning pronouncement was made by Bernard Goldberg, author of “A Slobbering Love Affair”.  This momentous turn of events highlighted by Goldberg was welcome news to us in the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) who launched our ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “Social Security is indeed a Ponzi scheme” – Texas Governor Rick Perry, November 2010. Social Security is one of Americans’ most important safety-nets. The current Social Security program is a mainstay for women. Women are 52 percent of all adult beneficiaries, including retirees, the disabled, and the survivors of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When Barack Obama was elected as the president of the United States, black liberals dreamily believed that the numerous maladies in the black community would cease to exist.  They believed that his election was indicative of a vigorous wind of political and social change that was blowing across the country.  ...