By The Admin on September 28, 2010
The House ethics committee split along party lines Tuesday as Republicans demanded pre-election trials for two prominent Democrats, Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters.
The rift is important politically because proceedings in October could generate negative headlines for Democrats. Trials after the election would likely keep the Democrats’ ethics record in the background in midterm campaigns largely [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Congress
By The Admin on September 28, 2010
The Carter Center says Jimmy Carter developed an upset stomach on a flight to Cleveland and was taken to a hospital for observation.
Jackie Mayo, a spokeswoman at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, says the 85-year-old former president was a passenger on a Delta flight to Cleveland late Tuesday morning and became ill. She says he was [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on September 28, 2010
Newsmax
- Riding a fierce anti-incumbent wave, Republicans have an opportunity to make history by electing a record number of black conservatives to Congress this November.
Fourteen black Republicans have received the GOP’s nomination in their respective congressional districts. If just three of them win, it would mark the first time since Reconstruction that more than two [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Party Politics
By The Admin on September 28, 2010
Atlanta Post
- “A constant diet of hopelessness will ultimately darken their mental skies and make them believe that their future is bleak and they will, therefore, develop the self-destructive behavior patterns so many of our youth currently exhibit.” Na’im Akbar
The headline, “Murders of Young Black Men Rise” by Mike Wilkinson and Santiago Esparza in the [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
By The Admin on September 27, 2010
Although you rarely hear racial insults on Main Street these days, there’s a place where unashamed bigotry is all too easy to find: tossed off in the comments sections of some of the Internet’s most popular websites, today’s virtual Main Street.
Internet anonymity has removed one of the strongest barriers to the type of language that [...]
Posted in Media, Race
