(ThyBlackMan.com) If one takes a serious look at the recent history of organizations like Lehman Brothers, Countrywide and most recently, MF Global, you start to wonder if what is defined as criminal behavior in the rest of the United States is the same for folks on Wall Street with straight ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “I would also say of Ron Paul – he doesn’t need to win. In his view he is winning already. This is an ideological point he is making. But here’s why it’s electorally significant – a lot of people, I mean 41 percent in Virginia, only two people on the ballot, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama’s job approval rating has risen to 50% for the first time since last summer.  The poll comes right after news that there were 227,000 jobs added to the US economy.  Additionally, the percentage of Americans who disapprove of the job the president is doing has dropped to ...

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(ThyBlackMan.com) The latest grim figures for black joblessness wiped away the brief glimmer of hope that the nation’s tepid and cautious recovery might finally be diminishing the chronically high unemployment levels among blacks and the Great Depression-level jobless numbers among young black males. A month before the release of the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As President of the united States, I don’t bluff.” These were the words of President Barack Obama, sounding as bellicose as the neocons of the prior administration and prior. I guess to take a lyric from a song from Sesame Street and replacing lulu with Be Be, “Be Be’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) We are all aware of the massive debt that has been accrued over the past six executive administrations. Likewise that a lot of it is either wasted for stuff I can’t figure out like $750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay or giving one ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) MILF is an acronym used in pornography for “Mother I’d Like to F—“. Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a MILF. Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a “dumb twat”. Bill Maher joked that Sarah Palin’s Down Syndrome baby was the result of Palin having sex with John Edwards. Bill Maher ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Republicans don’t excite me very much, but it seems that we have to at least acknowledge them. The party has become, in recent years, an even worse example of politics gone scary.  The right wing opposition to having a Black liberal in the White House has led to some ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Socioeconomically speaking, black America is in a rut — a very long-lasting rut. At 13.6%, black unemployment remains nearly double that of their white counterparts and higher than it was in 2008. Despite national trends which bally-hooed an inexplicable drop in January from a 2011 average of 15.8%, the economic ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) For someone who made history as his state’s first African-American to serve in Congress and developed an international reputation for his work in support of Africa, Donald Payne was a pretty unassuming man. He didn’t have the flash of a Charlie Rangel or the fire of a Maxine Waters, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is widely celebrated for his staunch support of libertarian principles. Ron Paul’s libertarian principles, however, often lead to statements that enrage critics. After tornadoes devastated Kentucky and Indiana Friday, Ron Paul said that he would not give federal aid to tornado victims. “There is ...