(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first read the news about Representative (Rep.) Charlie Rangel filing a 2012 statement of candidacy with the Federal Elections Committee for a possible 22nd term in Congress, I initially laughed as I conjectured that the article was somehow meant as a joke. To my surprise, research indicated that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Lawsuits contesting President Obama’s birthplace have been routinely dismissed. The Supreme Court has declined to take up the issue. Hawaiian state officials have repeatedly offered to make copies of Obama’s birth certificate available (now for a fee). And mainstream GOP officials, including defrocked Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele called ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This past Monday President Obama unveiled his FY 2012 budget submission. In his proposed $3.7 trillion spending plan the president seeks to trim or eliminate 200 federal programs, pledging $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade. The proposed reductions, which average just over $100 billion each year, will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Anyone hoping President Barack Obama’s 2012 federal spending plan would suddenly reverse his previous course and target increased revenue towards helping black America will be sorely disappointed. In his $3.73 trillion budget submitted to Congress yesterday, the president shows that he still believes the best way to help black America ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas peppered an attorney with a question during oral arguments on a South Carolina death penalty case. The questioning of an attorney by a Supreme Court Justice would normally not make news but Thomas’s question did, not because it was penetrating, involved a complex point of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am far from an expert on African history and politics. Nevertheless a few things seem obvious while following the popular uprisings in Cote D’Ivoire, Egypt and Tunisia. One: revolutions are inevitable. Two: No matter how many revolutions occur, African nations will never be totally autonomous. Revolutions are necessary. They ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A Glowing Reminder As To Why This Is Our Time President Barack Obama’s second State of the Union address last week offered us a glowing reminder of why we elected him the 44th President of these (dis)United States. A remarkable display of reason, logic, results and yes, HOPE, all ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama will meet with former President Clinton today for reasons that go beyond the mounting furor and looming Congressional stalemate over the tax cut deal he brokered with the GOP. Clinton’s presidency by many measures was a success, and much of that success was due to the fact that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama has almost certainly heard and read the mounting criticism from immigrant rights, civil liberties and civil rights, and criminal justice reform groups that he is coming close to breaking an unenviable record. The president’s record is not just one of the slowest in modern history to grant pardons ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The resounding defeat recently meted out against House Democrats should serve as a wake-up call for those who found solace in the election of America’s first Black president. While the Democratic victories of 2008 brought with them campaign promises for transparency and reform, carrying them into practice has proven difficult ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On the surface it may be hard to tell just how close that not only America, but also the entire globe had come to utter socio-economic disaster back in October 2008, but if no one digs any deeper of course, how could anyone know? Fact is, not only while within ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s be honest. The American voting process is a mess. Most Americans either proclaim a real understanding or they simply make no comment. But the reality is that many of us have no idea how the process works and even fewer understand the various propositions that are on state and ...