By The Admin on March 22, 2010
ERIKA LOVLEY, Politico
- It sounds like a dream come true for the GOP: a record 30-plus black Republicans are running for Congress this year, aiming to bring down President Barack Obama—and providing some diversity to a party often accused of having none.
Many of them are gathered in Washington this weekend for the annual Frederick Douglass [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Party Politics, Race, White House
By The Admin on March 22, 2010
Krissah Thompson, Washington Post
- Organizers of a march for immigrants’ rights in Washington on Sunday are reaching out to African Americans, hoping to bring the two communities together around an issue that has been a wedge between them.
The campaign includes ads for the march on urban radio stations along the East Coast, asking for listeners [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on March 22, 2010
John McArdle, CQ-Roll Call
The praise for conservative icon Ann Coulter and scorn for “Barack Hussein Obama’s” socialist agenda was plentiful at a Republican candidate forum in Washington, D.C. Thursday, and it certainly sounded like any standard GOP event. But it sure as heck didn’t look like one.
That’s because the 2nd annual Frederick Douglass Foundation Leadership [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections
By The Admin on March 21, 2010
Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage.
Widely viewed as dead two months ago, the Senate-passed bill cleared the House [...]
Posted in Congress, Health
By The Admin on March 21, 2010
A congressman who was spat on by a protestor on Capitol Hill says he is declining to press charges, but turns out the Capitol Police say they made no arrests.
Missouri Democrat Emanuel Cleaver was making his way through a group of angry protestors when the incident occurred. It was one of several ugly incidents in [...]
Posted in Congress
