By The Admin on November 24, 2010
Barack Obama performed an annual rite of presidents on Wednesday, pardoning a pair of turkeys on Thanksgiving eve and cracking jokes about the competition that brought them to his famous doorstep.
“For the record, let me say that it feels pretty good to stop at least one shellacking this November,” Obama said in the White House [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on November 24, 2010
The Ticket
- Like other freshman lawmakers, newly elected Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson ran for Congress on a vow to change Washington. But her first order of business has nothing to do with health care, education or the usual mix of issues that come up in the early days of a new Congress.
Instead, Wilson’s first goal [...]
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By The Admin on November 24, 2010
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- President Obama should turn a deaf ear to the chatter about him not running again. He’s heard plenty of that in the weeks since the Democrat’s midterm election drubbing. Much of the chatter hasn’t come from the usual, hostile GOP and Tea Party suspects. The stand down talk has come in a [...]
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By The Admin on November 24, 2010
Leadership of the nine largest historically Black denominations today announced the launch of The Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC). The organization, representing a combined membership of more than 30 million people and 50,000 congregations throughout the United States and the African Diaspora, will fill the void for a unified voice of faith advocating on [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
By The Admin on November 23, 2010
Wall Street Journal
- The black and Hispanic caucuses emerged from this month’s elections as among the largest blocs in the House, and their members said they planned to push hard for liberal priorities such as government spending to create jobs.
Members of the two caucuses will hold nearly a third of the Democratic seats in the [...]
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