Sarah Palin is determined to stay in the news, and FOX News is happy to provide the diva with a platform.
From the Associated Press:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, amid speculation she’ll run for president in four years, blamed Bush administration policies for the defeat last week of the GOP ticket and prayed she wouldn’t miss “an [...]
November 10th, 2008
Categories: Elections, Humor, Race, Republicans . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
“Change has come to America.”
Chicago, IL–November 4, 2008- If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer [...]
November 5th, 2008
Categories: America, Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicagoland, Congress, Constitution, Democratic News, Elections, John McCain, Race, Republicans . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
I watched the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer this evening. Robert Kiddle, the editorial page editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune, explained why his editorial staff endorsed John McCain.
During the interview, Kiddle gave Obama credit, saying he was “articulate.”
Yup. He really said it.
So what’s the problem with the word “articulate?” [...]
October 28th, 2008
Categories: Race, Rant . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Want to know how to get John McCain and Sarah Palin on the phone?
On Wednesday, Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old college student of College Station, Texas, said she was using an ATM at in Pittsburgh just before 9 p.m. Wednesday when a man approached her and put a knife to her throat. Todd was in Pittsburgh [...]
October 24th, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama, Elections, GLBT, John McCain, Legal, Philosophical, Race, Rant, Republicans, Strange, Violence . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
The Chicago Sun-Times is running three articles today detailing different instances of predatory lending: here, here, and here. Some of these loans financed by supposedly reputable lending institutions.
Take Anna Nelson, age 90:
In 1994, she made her first mistake, she admits.
She and her late husband owed just $5,000 on her house in the Roseland neighborhood. But [...]
October 20th, 2008
Categories: Chicago, Chicagoland, Economy, Legal, Philosophical, Race, Rant . Author: G . Comments: 2 Comments
As a native of Pennsylvania, I’m not surprised when I read things like this, but I am a bit disheartened. Pittsburgh is still very, very segregated. Walk into Eat’n Park on Clairton Boulevard just north of Century III Mall and you’ll hardly ever see a person of color.
It’s just that white, still.
So when I read [...]
October 20th, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama, Elections, John McCain, Race, Rant, Strange . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Here we go. Johnny M. is playing it — or accusing Barack O. of playing it.
The race card. The dreaded race card.
When all chips are down, when a black man or woman is in danger of succeeding, there you have it. The race card again. It must be the race card.
Here’s [...]
August 1st, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicagoland, Elections, John McCain, Race . Author: G . Comments: No Comments