I happen to believe racism isn’t a matter of power, but a question about prejudice dependent on someone’s ethnicity or skin color: yes, non-whites can be racist. Honestly, I’ve personally known more racist black people than white. It’s prejudice and fear of the most horrific kind, because the intended targets can’t do a [...]
Like most of America, I waited with baited breath for the expiration of the infamous “First 100 days”, an arbitrary deadline during which we expect to measure the mettle of new presidents.
Although a few things were disturbing near the end of that time period, I (and most Americans, I think) gave him high marks for [...]
I want you to hold your government accountable. I want you to hold me accountable.
~Barack Obama
Ok, we will!
~PolitiFact.com
100 days after taking on the mantle of the Presidency, it’s time (at last!) to do just that.
Like most everyone, I imagine, I’ve been watching what President Obama has been up to. Trying to remember that [...]
Over the weekend, new allegations have surfaced in connection with the treatment (or mistreatment) of terror “suspects”. Among them, the treatment of Abu Zubaydah, presumed Al-Qaeda operative, who was subjected to this treatment a shocking 83 times, and Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, confessed planner of the September 11th attacks, who was waterboarded a stunning [...]
I don’t know what the protocol is for meeting the King of Saudi Arabia. I’m going to guess it depends on your status. I’m quite sure some people bow darn near to the man’s knees, and for them it is correct.
Heads of state do not. Inclining the head, yes. Perhaps a small bending of the [...]
The First Family met with her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II yesterday, a meeting that was shown over and over again on all the news channels. I’m pretty sure it’s not only the American networks, either.
What caught my attention, however, is the one person who’s never talked about unless he’s saying something outrageous again. [...]
Ok, I haven’t done a political post in a while, largely because I felt I needed to back off a bit. I mean really, I felt as though I were on fire at times! Then my mom hinted that I was becoming a politician, to which I responded (truthfully, from my point of [...]
Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth. ~ Oprah Winfrey1
After eight long years of lies, both obvious and subtle, from a President who nonetheless claimed the moral high ground in all things, it is immensely, beautifully refreshing [...]
Let the guys in the green visors go at it: tax season is here. In the midst of it all, while most of us mere mortals are pulling our hair out, trying to get it right, no less than three (count them, THREE!) of the best minds for Obama’s administration have been caught, in [...]
(UPDATE: I’ve added a link to the current stimulus package, H.R. 1, as passed in the House on 27 Jaunary, 2008. It’s a full PDF text, all 647 pages of it. May comment on it later, as I’m currently attempting to pour over it).
As the economy continues tit’s downward spiral amid news [...]
donna5522: Hi,
My name is Donna Wilcox, I am working with BikeAthens this semester, I'm not sure if you have heard of them, but after reading this [...]
Sotomayor and the Race/Gender Debate
I happen to believe racism isn’t a matter of power, but a question about prejudice dependent on someone’s ethnicity or skin color: yes, non-whites can be racist. Honestly, I’ve personally known more racist black people than white. It’s prejudice and fear of the most horrific kind, because the intended targets can’t do a [...]