President-elect Barack Obama and his aides are determined not to repeat the mistakes the Clinton administration made 15 years ago in trying to revamp the nation’s health care system. That means applying some of the lessons learned — moving fast, seizing momentum and not letting it go. Tom Daschle, Obama’s point man on the issue, […]
Eddie L. Johnson, South Coast Today – One of President Woodrow Wilson’s famous quotes reads as follows: “A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where […]
Good morning. Yesterday, we received another painful reminder of the serious economic challenge our country is facing when we learned that 533,000 jobs were lost in November alone, the single worst month of job loss in over three decades. That puts the total number of jobs lost in this recession at nearly 2 million. But […]
In the harsh light of the morning after his sentencing, O.J. Simpson’s future was clear Saturday. His new home will be a prison cell in the Nevada desert with his door to freedom hinging on an appeal of a trial that his lawyers say was filled with errors. “This is not a frivolous appeal,” Yale […]
A Southern Christian Leadership Conference official says Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford received inequitable treatment when he was arrested for bribery and other charges. Langford was arrested at his office at Birmingham Budweiser Monday morning. He was placed in leg irons and kept in a holding cell at the federal courthouse until his initial court appearance […]
Use of the “N-word” by a witness caused a mistrial in a closely-watched Florida tobacco lawsuit. A Broward County judge declared the mistrial Thursday after an expert used the racial epithet in explaining how he did research into the role of racism in the tobacco industry.
The United States said Thursday it was looking at how to help Zimbabwe hit by a cholera outbreak, and renewed calls on President Robert Mugabe’s government to settle a month-long political crisis. Zimbabwe’s government pleaded for international help Thursday after declaring a national emergency over the epidemic in which 560 people have died.
The 61-year-old former football star, actor and TV pitchman will be sentenced Friday along with a co-defendant in a hearing that marks the end of Simpson’s journey from fame and fortune to crime and punishment.
Codeblack Interactive has unveiled an online shopping site aimed at African-Americans at Codeblack.com.The site features 4,000 book titles of interest to African-Americans and 2,000 urban DVDs from major studios and independents.The site also will offer digital distribution of the Codeblack catalog on demand. Codeblack titles feature such stars as Jamie Foxx, Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding […]
He is Black. If I hear one more person say that Barack Obama is not Black, I think I am going to scream. It was bad enough when anonymous, faceless bloggers advanced that sentiment in the blogosphere, but after reading it as an editorial in a major American newspaper, a response is required.
Yep, just relax as the self-loathing American media continues to remind us how bad we are as a nation for wanting secure borders.Mexico Drug Cartels Send A Message of Chaos, DeathBy William BoothWashington Post Foreign ServiceMEXICO CITY — The death squads of the drug cartels are killing in spectacularly gruesome ways, using the violence as […]