By The Admin on January 31, 2011
Newsweek
- Farah J. Griffin’s 82-year-old mother, Wilhelmenia, hasn’t missed an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show since it debuted nearly 20 years ago. So when Winfrey’s 24-hour Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) debuted on Jan. 1, Griffin upgraded her mother’s cable package so she could watch from her Philadelphia home. Only now, Griffin wants more for [...]
Posted in Media, Race
By The Admin on January 28, 2011
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
- Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution states, “He (the President) shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; …” President Obama gave the second State of the [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on January 28, 2011
H. Lewis Smith
- The removal of the n-word from Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn has caused complete outrage, shock, and outcries of sorts all across the American landscape. If the term is removed from historical texts, which were written during and work to convey the reality of the times—depicting the distorted face and broken planes of [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
By The Admin on January 28, 2011
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
- The most recent budget and economic forecast from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that unemployment will remain high for the foreseeable future. The CBO estimates that unemployment will remain above 9.0 percent through 2011 and drop to 8.2 percent in 2012. “CBO projects that the unemployment rate will gradually [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, White House
By The Admin on January 28, 2011
Moving to dispel claims that President Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii, his supporters in the state’s legislature have introduced a bill that would allow anyone to get a copy of his birth records for a $100 fee.
The idea behind the measure is to end skepticism over Obama’s birthplace while raising a little money [...]
Posted in Hawaii, White House
