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A Father’s Day Tribute

I am listening to a financial advisor’s pitch about a company. Great balance sheet, low P/E multiple, great product, the same thing everyone begins with before making their buy recommendation. Then comes the details or, in essence, how this stock is going to make you rich. The gentleman says to me, “This company is going [...]

Why the race issue isn’t going away

This morning, as I drove in to work – I was listening to Glenn Beck and a caller stated that she could just not bring herself to vote for someone with the middle name ‘Hussein’ and that saying ‘President Obama’ made her feel like she was in another country. Beck told her that her [...]

Vernon Jones concedes U. S. Senate race to Jim Marting

Staff Writer, BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com
- Dekalb CEO Vernon Jones conceded the Democratic nomination for the Georgia U. S. Senate seat to opponent former state lawmaker Jim Martin.  According to Georgia Public Broadcasting News, Jones blamed the media and its focus on his having voted twice for President George Bush as the reason for his failed attempt at [...]

Steele as McCain’s running mate?

- According to Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic, former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele will accompany Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain to the NAACP convention in Cincinnati. Steele became the first African-American to chair a state Republican party when he was elected chair of the Maryland Republican Party in 2000.
Steele has been [...]

Offensive magazine covers, baby mamas, and terrorist fist jabs – Journalism Gone Wild or sheer ignorance?

In yesterday’s weekly episode of “Racially Insensitive Ideas Gone Wrong,” the New Yorker has proclaimed that a cover depicting Sen. Barack Obama with an enormously drawn head wrapped in a turban and wife Michelle as some type of heat-packing militant Barbie as “satire.” (May I also point out the subtly placed photo of Osama [...]

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