I confessed in this space three and a half years ago that I was among those who openly wept when Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. I had closely followed the plight of black Americans ever since I toured the deep southern USA in …

Two weeks ago, Hollywood liberal and all-around gorgeous good guy George Clooney hosted a glad-handing fundraising event that, according to the Patriot Act’s broad provisions, should have landed him and fellow attendees Billy Crystal, Barbra Streisand,…

by Ministry of Truth I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies, you hate em all. You hate being called racist. You hate being called a bigot. Maybe if you talked [...]

By Michael J.W. StickingsWell, so much for Americans Elect, that full-of-itself “centrist” organization that was hoping to run a third-party candidate for president in November. Politico explains:The group had qualified for the general election ballot …

Yesterday I posted an article title “Hypocrisy 101: The Black Church vs The Decision on Same-sex Marriage.”  Now many people were upset that the article might start a backlash against the black community.   There were also complaints that it’s…

By now you have heard that US President, Barak Obama, has now publicly supported same-sex marriage.  Many cheered this revelation.  Finally a leader of one of the most-powerful countries in the world is recognizing that homosexuals are allowed the s…

Shareholder meetings can be routine, unless you are Bank of America, in which case it may be declared an “extraordinary event.” That is what the city of Charlotte, N.C., called the bank’s shareholder meeting this week. Bank of America is currently the …

Many liberals and democrats will now say: “Finally! ” and ask: “What took you so long Mr. President?” Yes indeed, what prevented Barrack Obama to show his support of gay marriage publicly until now? Perhaps the question isn&…

Dear Readers; When I was just a young lad back in the days of JFK and Diefenbaker, politics was a rather polite affair, where the best way to get votes was by telling the electorate how you were going to do better than the competition. Not what they were doing wrong, mind you, but how [...]

May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year’s election will undoubtedly be the most expensive in U.S. history, with some projections topping $5 billion. Not only has the amount…

Dear Readers; I apologize for the profanity, but there really is no other way to describe it ……., The U.S. is fucking stupid! They make everyone get a passport to get across the border, and are in the process of building a wall between our two countries, when suddenly they start to panic that tourism [...]

Mitt Romney is so flippant nowadays and his campaign jockeys so clueless as to what to tell him to say in public that it’s painstaking to watch the campaign unfold. Every single time this man opens his mouth, he either makes a ridiculous statemen…

Three targeted Americans: A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker. None of these U.S. citizens was charged with a crime, but they have been tracked, surveilled, detained — sometimes at gunpoint — and interrogated, with no …

President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign launched its first Spanish-language ads this week, just after returning from the Summit of the Americas. He spent three days in Colombia, longer than any president in U.S. history. The trip was marred, howe…

Miscellaneous material to start your week.- When even free-trade warrior Barrie McKenna can only respond incredulously to a message campaign on behalf of the wealthy, you know it’s gone too far. So here’s McKenna answering the contrived outrage over th…

Via Firedoglake, The Austin Lounge Lizards perform “Too Big To Fail”: * More links: Austin Lounge Lizards – Syndicated from http://350orbust.com

In President Obama’s address last week, he made it clear that it’s time America ends the $4 billion in annual subsidies to oil companies that are earning historic profits, and invests in new technologies. Prime Minister Harper, are you list…

Guest Post: A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds – Whatever: ‘via Blog this’ It is our responsibility, as always, to protect our patients from things that would harm them. Therefore, as physicians, it is our duty to refuse to perform a …

Dear Readers; It is our opinion that Dick Cheney is not only guilty of war crimes, but ‘High Treason’ as well! What he did while in office rivals anything done in Russia or China, and we hope he is held accountable one day! —————————————– By Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press TORONTO – Former U.S. vice-president [...]

Super Tuesday demonstrated the rancour rife in Republican ranks, as the four remaining major candidates slug it out to see how far to the right of President Barack Obama they can go. While attacking him daily for the high cost of gasoline, both sides a…