Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher appeared on CNN last night and followed Democratic dogma in playing the race card this time against Herman Cain, GOP Presidential primary candidate. He said Cain was racist when he referred to black voters as having been “brainwashed.” His definition of a racial remark is one that characterizes and entire group… [Read more…]
September 30, 2011
This morning the following arrived from Huff Post Hill: BANK OF AMERICA JUST BEGGING TO GO DOWN – Bank of America today announced that it would begin charging $5 per month for debit card usage, because defrauding homeowners and cashing taxpayer checks was no longer a winning business model. Well, they announced that first part,… [Read more…]
September 29, 2011
There was an excellent piece on Herman Cain on the CNN Political Ticker today and it went down as fast as it went up. The hook was Cain’s remark that blacks have been brainwashed but at the end of the article, Cain made some astute observations about the roll of the media in this campaign:… [Read more…]
September 28, 2011
Racism has always been in mind of the President from day one. He was voted in by a dewy-eyed electorate desperate to bring a splintered country back together under a man that seemed to symbolize the fulfillment of the American Dream. But here are key videos that let us know that the seeds of racism… [Read more…]
September 28, 2011
Where’s the bounce? Herman Cain trounced all the other candidates in the Florida Straw Poll Saturday the 24th of September and the very next day CNN carried the results of one of their polls that headlined Romney and Perry as still leading the pack. While Perry led this poll, Romney was seen as the winner… [Read more…]
September 26, 2011
LoopyLoo305 My dear friend Loopyloo305 has honored me by nominating this blog for the Versatile Bloggers Award. 11) and the nominee is ON MY WATCH – the writings of SamHenry Sam Henry knows that life is precious and that it must be savored, she has a wry sense of humor and loves people. Plus she… [Read more…]
September 26, 2011
What is it about the tried and true followers of Sarah Palin? Make even the mildest criticism of her and it is as if you have slammed a saint. You are called not only unreasonable but out of the loop. Mental doors shut and you know this or that person will never again take what… [Read more…]
September 25, 2011
The issue of illegal immigration infected the GOP Presidential debates. Perry supports financial breaks for illegals from Mexico and South America to go to school. That has unleashed a firestorm. And now the President of the United states, not trusting in his seconds to do it for him or his seconds having refused to do… [Read more…]
September 24, 2011
Just when you thought you’d have to spend months enduring the endless sparring between Perry and Romney, the race has had an opening up in Florida. A straw poll gave a substantial lead to Herman Cain. As it turned out, it was not just a vote against Perry but also against Romney and Bachmann. It… [Read more…]
September 24, 2011
Probably 20 years ago now, SamHenry’s mother and stepfather were living on Pinacle Peak in Scottsdale, Arizona, high above the Sonoran Desert. On her first day there, Sam’s mother took her on a tour of America’s most beautiful desert and it brought a flood of tears. “Why are you crying”? mother asked. ” I thought… [Read more…]
September 24, 2011
When Britain finally hit the American colonials in their pockets, that’s when the specter of an American Revolution heated up. Thus ran the theory of Charles and Mary Beard in their seminal work about the economic roots of the fight for American independence. The mix of economic and political elements and what leads to a… [Read more…]
September 24, 2011
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Noteworthy this week was a “Shakespearean drama” playing itself out in Moscow. Tuesday’s dramatic toppling of long-time Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was positively Shakespearean in character – a stage-managed political slaying of a seemingly untouchable party boss who presided over the capital “like some kind of Mongolian khan”, as one foreign observer put it. For… [Read more…]
September 24, 2011
Remember ten short years ago when Russian President Vladimir Putin visited George Bush on the Texas White House ranch at Crawford? Remember the two of them tooling around in the truck smiling? And George enthusiastically said he had looked into the soul of this Russian and had seen a good guy? Remember? It has been… [Read more…]
September 23, 2011
With not one but two books filled with red-hot gossip about Sarah Palin hitting shelves and hard drives this week (no titles or authors will be publicized here), is it any wonder that Palin supporters are questioning not Sarah Palin but the authors of these books? Their negativity may backfire and actually add to her… [Read more…]
September 22, 2011
Forget that the internet was buzzing with the possibility that Obama would discuss his Administration’s controversial policies toward Israel and of Palestinian statehood. The President, per usual, was not listening to “we the People.” He breezed into a bland discussion of yet another website in his name and challenged the members to support a program… [Read more…]
September 30, 2011
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