(ThyBlackMan.com) President Ronald Reagan is known for strictly adhering to his dictum, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” Notably, Reagan credited this so-called “11th Commandment”, which he began promoting during his first California gubernatorial run, to Gaylord Parkinson. (At the time, Parkinson was California’s Republican Chairman.) Reagan believed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “When I left home to run for Congress, I had to know why I was doing that. My why was one in five children in America lives in poverty, goes to sleep hungry at night. That was my why.” – Nancy Pelosi If the measure of public service is how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since President Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” in 1971, federal, state and local governments have spent an estimated $1 trillion fighting it — and losing. Donald Trump now seems fully engaged in that futile conflict, adding his own twisted brand of violence. It’s not enough to bomb ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every elected official is required to take an oath of office. The sworn oath publicly binds them to the Constitution, laws, and to the people they were elected to represent. Taking an oath is an act of accountability and a moral commitment that is not optional. It is a statement ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s no mystery why Zohran Mamdani wanted to get along with Donald Trump. The president threatened New York City with funding cuts, deployment of federal forces and other unpleasantries if its voters elected the self-described democratic socialist as mayor. But why after calling Mamdani all kinds of names, even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Lindsey Burke is not a household name, but many Americans will one day feel the painful depth of her work. Burke, who currently serves on the Board of Visitors for George Mason University, was previously Director of the Center for Education at The Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Stanford University Three Strike Project in a report found that Blacks get a much harsher sentence than whites for the same crime. This is hardly the revelation of the ages for many criminal justice reform advocates. They have long contended backed up by a wealth of facts, figures, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Doug Jones announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in a 2017 special election, he was considered a long shot as a Democratic candidate running for statewide office in the deeply Republican state of Alabama. The special election was held following the resignation of Republican incumbent Jeff Sessions, who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The news that civil rights icon the reverend Jesse Jackson was hospitalized ignited an avalanche of media and public commentary, speculation and tributes to him. Jackson is battling a rare neurological disorder that most people had never heard of. And it has often proved fatal. This prompted the intense ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “This project is befitting of the legacy of greatness that so many Black New Yorkers have built here in Harlem. It is Black-owned in a time when we are being taught as if the words DEI are that of a slur, when in fact what they are is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor set off — for his fan base, anyway — great expectations of a more “affordable” city. But the Democratic Socialist hasn’t even been sworn in, and some of his marquee promises are already history. Start with free buses. For ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For the first time in my thirty-five years in Washington, DC, something historic is in the air when it comes to small business. What is happening reminds me of the famous quote from the movie, “Field of Dreams.” “If you build it, he will come.” In a similar manner, ...