(ThyBlackMan.com) The hot seat just got hotter for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. His ex-girlfriend, Lillian McEwen claims that Thomas had an insatiable lust for pornography, had kinky tastes when it came to sex and engaged in lots of it while they were involved. McEwen, a former assistant U.S. attorney ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The workers of Wisconsin have had it. They are tired of living in a country where jobs are being shipped overseas, and wages continue to decline in real dollar terms. They are not going to tolerate having their collective bargaining power undermined, and they are fed up with politicians ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Businessman, talk show host and political activist Herman Cain was the runaway winner in a presidential straw poll at the Tea Party weekend summit in Phoenix this February. Tea Party leaders almost to a person said Cain “resonated” with them because he embodied what they want to see for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The tale of FBI informant Ernest Withers is now well known. He spent years busily snapping photos of many major civil rights happenings, actions, and doings of civil rights leaders, most notably Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He got close-up shots of them because either through disinterest, Wither’s flattery, or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In North Carolina this past Tuesday, Wake County Schools Superintendent Tony Tata seemingly took a stand for poor children when he announced that he would form a task force to reconsider the Tea Party-dominated Wake County school board’s controversial decision in March 2010 to base school assignments for children in ...
(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 ...