(ThyBlackMan.com) As Congress and the nation continue to hurdle towards the critical August 2nd deadline for raising the debt limit, I am amazed that while the clock is ticking on America’s AAA credit rating and the viability of our entire economy, some of my colleagues continue to cling to an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As debt talks between Congress and the president resume this Sunday, the situation hits a disturbing new level as the GOP reaches an all-time low. Instead of working towards a compromise as the president has been diligently pushing for, Republican Congressional leaders would rather leave the American people out ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By now, we’ve all had the opportunity to observe and reflect on the debacle surrounding attacks by Dr. Cornel West against President Obama and his lack of concentration on the disparities of poverty in the black community. A valid discussion about how a sitting president’s policies affect a certain ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have known Tom Joyner (nationally syndicated radio host) for many years. We are not hanging out buddies, but we have always enjoyed talking and joking with each other. He is an “old school” soul who has done a lot of good in his life. But, in recent years, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2012 Presidential election night is 16 months away, but that didn’t stop the professional President Obama loathers from committing what will probably be the first of much malicious mischief to disrupt, disinform, and confuse voters and slur Obama. The slur the hacker or hackers chose was the standard, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rather than responding to the misery of the millions of unemployed by articulating the rationale for additional stimulus, Obama and the Democrats have cowered in the face of the Conservative’s demand for draconian cuts in government spending. Obama is blithely touring the country visiting businesses he believes illustrate how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s tempting to simplify and view Washington DC as the lair of three different types of people – Democrats, Republicans, and now the ever-growing Tea Party faithful. Pundits and political scientists are prone to slide the actors of this political drama into these three columns. When you know where ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is hard to understand politics if you are hung up on reality. Politicians leave reality to others. What matters in politics is what you can get the voters to believe, whether it bears any resemblance to reality or not. Not only among politicians, but also among much of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the season of presidential politics 2012 unfolds, I’m struck by similarities between today and the tumultuous period in our history that led up to the election of Abraham Lincoln and then on to the Civil War. So much so that I’m finding it a little eerie that this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The National Newspaper Association took advantage of what some expected to be a major prize fight between Cornel West and Rev. Al Sharpton. The group referred to their gathering at the annual convention of the National Newspaper Publishers Association as “The Showdown,” letting the world know that they expected ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whenever you take a look at a bad law that is on the books, or a policy that the government has put into place, you can bet that someone paid for that. And in this most horrid of political seasons, you’d better believe that attached to each deplorable piece ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Wall Street and the auto industry bailout, healthcare reform, Iraq and Afghanistan, the “birthers,” the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, immigration, 9.1% (16% real) unemployment, “shellacking” 2010 Midterm Congressional elections, civil unions, same-sex marriage, al Qaeda, bin Laden, renewal of the Patriot Act, continued rising tide of home ...