By The Admin on December 26, 2009
South African poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an activist well after the fall of his country’s racist system, has died. He was 85.
Brutus’ publisher, Chicago-based Haymarket Books, said the writer died in his sleep at his home in Cape Town on Saturday.
Brutus was an [...]
Posted in International News
By The Admin on December 26, 2009
Scott Glover, Los Angeles Times
- Andre Birotte Jr., who for the last six years has served as the Los Angeles Police Department’s inspector general, has been tapped by President Obama to become the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, the White House announced Thursday.
If confirmed by the Senate, Birotte, 43, would become the first black [...]
Posted in State & Local News
By The Admin on December 23, 2009
A Hawaiian woman was in federal custody Tuesday, accused of threatening first lady Michelle Obama, authorities said.
Kristy Lee Roshia was arrested by Secret Service agents in Honolulu Saturday, The Honolulu Advertiser reported.
An affidavit filed in federal court accused Roshia, who allegedly has a long history of making threatening telephone calls to the Secret Service in [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on December 23, 2009
Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post
- Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele drew bipartisan criticism Tuesday after it was revealed that he is giving paid speeches, at up to $20,000 apiece, while still holding his full-time post as party head.
The former Maryland lieutenant governor, who was elected chairman of the party in January, has given [...]
Posted in Party Politics
By The Admin on December 23, 2009
The top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a funding break for Nebraska in order to pass a federal health care reform bill, South Carolina’s attorney general said Tuesday.
Attorney General Henry McMaster said he and his counterparts in Alabama, Colorado, Michigan, North Dakota, Texas and Washington state [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
