http://www.dogonvillage.com Connecting the Black Diaspora with news, politics, and issues important to African-Americans Fri, 10 May 2013 16:19:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/07/hobbs-friday-flash-points-french-leader-may-be-cleared-of-new-york-rapeamericas-government-fetishminnesotas-deficit-meltdown/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/07/hobbs-friday-flash-points-french-leader-may-be-cleared-of-new-york-rapeamericas-government-fetishminnesotas-deficit-meltdown/#comments Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:43:11 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=2293 By Chuck Hobbs, Esq. – FRENCH LEADER ARRESTED FOR RAPE MAY BE INNOCENT “There’s a lot of real G’s doing time, because a groupie bit the truth and told a lie.” The late rap artist Tupac Shakur on his classic hit “I Get Around” One of the oldest axioms in the legal profession, one that [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/07/hobbs-friday-flash-points-french-leader-may-be-cleared-of-new-york-rapeamericas-government-fetishminnesotas-deficit-meltdown/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/06/hobbs-hump-day-hot-topics-president-obama-wrong-on-gay-marriageobama-is-right-on-afghan-troop-withdrawalobama-impersonator-just-plain-wrong/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/06/hobbs-hump-day-hot-topics-president-obama-wrong-on-gay-marriageobama-is-right-on-afghan-troop-withdrawalobama-impersonator-just-plain-wrong/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:34:16 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=2265 PRESIDENT WRONG ON GAY CIVIL UNIONS/MARRIAGE Amid almost daily attacks from Republicans about economic and foreign policy issues, as President Obama and his campaign team gears up for 2012, a far deeper concern is how to keep certain core Democrat constituencies, in this instance Gay and Lesbian voters, in tow and ready to turn out [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/06/hobbs-hump-day-hot-topics-president-obama-wrong-on-gay-marriageobama-is-right-on-afghan-troop-withdrawalobama-impersonator-just-plain-wrong/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/06/monday-musings-on-racial-gerrymandering-under-the-voting-rights-actjohn-edwards-indictment-in-federal-court/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/06/monday-musings-on-racial-gerrymandering-under-the-voting-rights-actjohn-edwards-indictment-in-federal-court/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:55:20 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=2222 By Chuck Hobbs, Esq – RACIAL REDISTRICTING – Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Cynthia Tucker took the unusual step of breaking with her typically progressive orthodoxy in a recent editorial that calls for the end of racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Tucker’s opinion—which I fully share—is that majority-minority districts, originally drawn to [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/06/monday-musings-on-racial-gerrymandering-under-the-voting-rights-actjohn-edwards-indictment-in-federal-court/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/us-supreme-court-orders-release-of-california-inmates/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/us-supreme-court-orders-release-of-california-inmates/#comments Mon, 30 May 2011 19:35:45 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=2183 By Chuck Hobbs, Esq. – Eighteen years ago, Monticello, Florida, a small hamlet near the capital city of Tallahassee, made international headlines when British tourist Gary Collie was murdered at a rest stop along the Interstate by four young black males. The public outrage soon morphed into a number of measures to reduce crime, including [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/us-supreme-court-orders-release-of-california-inmates/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/hobbs-hump-day-hot-topics-on-americas-debt-ceilingthe-obama-doctrinepeace-corps-rape-hearings/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/hobbs-hump-day-hot-topics-on-americas-debt-ceilingthe-obama-doctrinepeace-corps-rape-hearings/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 15:36:01 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=2154 By Chuck Hobbs, Esq. LOWERING THE DEBT CEILING One has to respect New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie, who is one of the more consistent critics of the escalating federal debt ceiling. Christie recently informed Republicans that if they fail to do as promised by reducing federal debt, that he would campaign against them in [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/hobbs-hump-day-hot-topics-on-americas-debt-ceilingthe-obama-doctrinepeace-corps-rape-hearings/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/chuck-hobbs-monday-musings-on-tax-incentives-for-big-oil-companies-ghost-of-terrorist-past-florida-court-overhaul-fails/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/chuck-hobbs-monday-musings-on-tax-incentives-for-big-oil-companies-ghost-of-terrorist-past-florida-court-overhaul-fails/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 15:14:13 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=2133 By Chuck Hobbs, Esq. TAX SUBSIDIES FOR BIG OIL Four dollar per gallon gas! Just reading it on the page hurts almost as much as dropping 80 bucks to fill up my car. For all of the righteous indignation we have as Americans about soaring gas prices, the issue is what to do about it? [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/chuck-hobbs-monday-musings-on-tax-incentives-for-big-oil-companies-ghost-of-terrorist-past-florida-court-overhaul-fails/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/hobbs-monday-musings-osama-bin-laden-is-killedroyal-wedding-and-a-funeralobama-tours-alabama/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/hobbs-monday-musings-osama-bin-laden-is-killedroyal-wedding-and-a-funeralobama-tours-alabama/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 04:44:51 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=2091 OSAMA BIN LADEN IS KILLED “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…a time to kill—a time to heal” Ecclesiastes 3:1-3 At long last, American forces cornered—and killed—Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the rise of Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. The politics of Bin Laden’s death [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/05/hobbs-monday-musings-osama-bin-laden-is-killedroyal-wedding-and-a-funeralobama-tours-alabama/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/affirmative-action-of-a-different-kind/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/affirmative-action-of-a-different-kind/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:27:04 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=2057 By Chuck Hobbs, Esq – Barely minutes after President Obama trumped Donald Trump on the idiotic “Birther” issue, Trump side-stepped his failure by asking to see President Obama’s undergraduate grades from Columbia and Harvard Law School. For Obama supporters, before getting too outraged please consider that such has been a fair area of inquiry before, [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/affirmative-action-of-a-different-kind/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/court-reform-measures-will-detrimentally-impact-minority-and-women-judicial-candidates/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/court-reform-measures-will-detrimentally-impact-minority-and-women-judicial-candidates/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:58:03 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1910 By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – This past week, a measure passed in the Republican controlled Florida House of Representatives moves the state one step closer to a 2012 ballot measure that, if passed, would require nominees to Florida’s Supreme Court to undergo a senate confirmation process similar to the federal system. At present, Supreme Court [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/court-reform-measures-will-detrimentally-impact-minority-and-women-judicial-candidates/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/congressional-budget-crisis/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/congressional-budget-crisis/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:36:11 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1808 By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – Whether you support or despise the loose coalition of groups collectively known as the Tea Party, you have to admit that, if nothing else, the rise of this movement has coincided with a greater awareness of politics and the practicality of decisions made by political leaders. When considering the looming [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/congressional-budget-crisis/feed/ 0