(ThyBlackMan.com) While hundreds of top military generals and admirals were summoned to Quantico, Virginia for a rare and unusual summit, President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth didn’t receive the type of MAGA response they were expecting. Gen. Dan Caine, Trump’s handpicked chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Exactly why are the Democrats trying to save Republicans from a drubbing in the midterms? Their shutdown of the government to stop cuts in health coverage does not work to their political advantage — or ultimately help those they purport to be protecting. Republicans running for reelection know ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I served as Treasurer of Ohio, helping to keep the state books balanced, the question of whether states should ever hire outside lawyers came up often and comparatively little attention was paid to who was being hired and whether state contracts truly protected the state and aligned with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s called the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” It is anything but. It asks the schools who received Wednesday’s letter to give up their academic freedom and adopt the right-wing partisan platform on education in exchange for preferred access to federal funding. Of course, the document points ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Interim University of Southern California President Beong-Soo Kim was matter of fact when he made clear that USC would continue its policy of legacy admissions. Kim said that “It seemed perverse to us that, in considering two equally qualified applicants, that we couldn’t consider that one of them had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everywhere I go lately, people whisper the same question: are we sliding into another blacklist era? They point to what happened to Stephen Colbert. They point to what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. They point to other entertainers whose shows, jokes, or politics suddenly seemed to cost them work. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The federal government just accumulated an additional $2 trillion in debt over the last 12 months. That’s the kind of debt surge America usually racks up in wartime or during major national emergencies. But today, as Republicans and Democrats engage in another budget-driven shutdown drama, we are not at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1903, just before Christmas in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, two brothers dove headfirst into frigid winds testing the ability of their latest invention to hover above the ground. After many failed attempts, and countless critics dismissing them as “chasing a fantasy,” the Wright Brothers recorded the first ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Electricity is not optional. It is a bill families cannot escape. Prices are climbing, and the cause is not mysterious: When politicians replace markets with mandates, consumers pay more. President Trump has been clear about this fight. He says his administration seeks “not only American energy independence but American ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The time has come to praise Donald Trump. Let’s savor the moment. The president is right to challenge the tech worker visa known as H-1B. This is a temporary visa that lets American companies hire skilled foreign workers in “specialty occupations.” The visa’s fans offer a mirror image, with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Every way that someone could come to us and get help for free and see that someone is speaking with the voice of the American people and with the government, all of that is being dismantled … when people lose that, they’re losing something fundamental to the American dream, to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel—giants of late-night television—now find themselves facing censorship, dismissal, or forced silence when their words cross the powerful. That should alarm us all. If media figures of their stature can be muzzled, what chance do ordinary journalists or community truth-tellers have? I know this ...