Obama was right when he said “…the most important thing I can do for the African-American community is the same thing I can do for the American community, period…” In other words, Obama’s first obligation is to the American people as a whole, not to the Black community. Yet the Congressional Black Caucus continue to [...]

So does this mean that I can download music guilt-free? (arstechnica.com) “Given how aggressively the recording industry likes to pursue file sharers, one would assume that the industry itself is in the clear when it comes to copyright infringement. But that assumption has been put to the test in Canada, where a massive infringement lawsuit [...]

Of 50 individuals who testified before the council’s hearings, there was not a single client of a pregnancy center who claimed to have been misled

Every time you do a search on Google (and possibly any other major search engine), it’s like you are taking part in an info drive where you are giving away your searching habits–even if you are logged out of Google. “As of last Friday, even searchers who aren’t logged into Google in any way have [...]

More climategate emails~ From: "Mick Kelly" To: m.hulme@xxxxxxxxx.xxx Subject: Shell Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 13:31:00 +0100 Reply-to: m.kelly@xxxxxxxxx.xxx Cc: t.oriordan@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, t.o'riordan@xxxxxxxxx.xxx Mike Had a very good meeting with Shell yesterday. Only a minor part of the agenda, but I expect they will accept an invitation to act as a strategic partner and will contribute to a studentship fund though under certain conditions. I now have [...]

Sing church! “Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.” I guess they are still waiting for the sheet music on climategate. So much for independent journalism.

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(thehill.com) President Obama’s social secretary quipped that she regularly let event crashers into White House gatherings — months before two reality-TV wannabes waltzed into last week’s state dinner. Desiree Rogers claimed in an interview with the trade magazine BizBash at the Creative Coalition’s annual meeting in June that she had added extra tables and benches at [...]

(image source) “This is good news, just in time for the season of hope,” Mr. Obama said in a speech at Lehigh Carbon Community College in suburban Allentown. “I’ve got to admit, my chief economist, Christy Romer, she got about four hugs when she handed us the report. But I do want to keep this [...]

Gibbs shows how he can talk down to a Black woman and get away with it. You think that’s bad, Zennie62 of sfgate.com goes further and calls April Ryan (the reporter who was chastised by Gibbs) a “crabbarel”. Because in his view, Ryan is “trying to take down another Black person.” Democrats are so cool!

New York, NY (BlackNews.com) – More than 200 aspiring writers, directors and producers from as far away as Seattle, took part in acclaimed producer/director Robert Townsend’s “The Ultimate Pitch Master Class” lecture series in New York recently. The three-hour session designed to teach aspiring filmmakers how to pitch their ideas to networks and studios, also [...]

Tiger Woods scandal prompts question: Why do men cheat? (USA Today) Why do women lay on their backsides with married men and publish all the details with no shame whatsoever? Will we see any stories on that question?

(politico.com) “It’s not [a] 400 percent [increase],” Sullivan said during a heated exchange with Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who suggested the service needed additional agents to protect the first African-American president. “I’m not sure where that number comes from,” he said, adding that the number of threats against Obama “are the same level as it [...]

(eff.org) This October, Chris Soghoian — computer security researcher, oft-times journalist, and current technical consultant for the FTC’s privacy protection office — attended a closed-door conference called “ISS World”. ISS World — the “ISS” is for “Intelligence Support Systems for Lawful Interception, Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Gathering” — is where law enforcement and intelligence agencies [...]

(detnews.com) More than a quarter of Metro Detroit households aren’t using or are underutilizing banking services, data released Wednesday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation shows. A total of 9.9 percent of households in the area don’t use banks at all, above the national average of 7.7 percent; 18 percent of local households have bank accounts, [...]

(CNN) – Members of President Obama’s own political party are charging that the White House and the Democratic Congressional leadership are not doing enough to help the unemployed and are threatening to organize a march on Washington of jobless Americans. “Obviously there’s something that’s not getting through to them,” said Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Illinois. “And we’re [...]

…can you take care a few people? This NY Times article explains why the CBC opted not to vote for financial regulation reform.

What I wrote back in November in “The Need For A Devil”~ “Lou Dobbs was already on one of the lowest rated, least watched cable networks. But his commentary on both illegal immigration and the free market drove his critics wild. Each night, his critics would hang onto his every word waiting to hear something that [...]

As if anyone thought differently. Check out the interactive map of the recent runoff mayoral elections in Atlanta.

This is an interesting topic that I have been looking into over the past few days. The Dog Star has been covering this issue for some time now. (link 1, link 2) And if you really want to twist your mind up, check this out.