By The Admin on January 31, 2009
US President Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.
“This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed,” Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.
“Negotiation is secondary, the [...]
Posted in International News
By The Admin on January 30, 2009
Putting another Campaign 2008 stamp on his new administration, President Barack Obama signed executive orders he said should “level the playing field” for labor unions against management.
Obama also used the occasion at the White House ceremony Friday to formally announce a new White House task force on the problems of middle-class Americans, and installed Vice [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
By The Admin on January 30, 2009
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Special to BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com
- Two weeks ago this writer wrote that an African-American was the last and best hope for the GOP. That meant picking an African-American to head the Republican National Committee. And I said that that African-American had to be former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele. For its sake, someone in [...]
Posted in Party Politics
By The Admin on January 30, 2009
Staff Reporter, BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com
- On the sixth ballot, members of the Republican National Committee elected former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele as its chairman. Steele is the first African-American to lead the RNC.
The race saw 3 candidates – RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell and Michigan GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis [...]
Posted in Featured, Party Politics
By The Admin on January 30, 2009
On the eve of Black History Month, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life released a new analysis (http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=389) that paints a detailed religious portrait of African-Americans. The analysis finds that African-Americans are markedly more religious than the U.S. population as a whole on a variety of measures, including reporting a religious [...]
Posted in Race
