villagechief, Author at Dogon Village

Commentary

Feminism Lays An Egg

March 10, 2011 villagechief 0

By Raynard Jackson – When you ask a chicken for an egg, it’s like asking for a contribution. Chickens lay many, many eggs in the course of their lifetime. But, when you ask a pig for bacon, you’re asking for a total commitment. In other words, the pig has to die in order to give […]

Commentary

Should We Bank on the Recovery?

March 10, 2011 villagechief 0

By Julianne Malveaux – Good news – the unemployment rate is dropping, last month from 9 percent to 8.9 percent a scant drop. Better news – the private sector is finally generating jobs, 192,000 to be exact, last month. Best news – there is optimism about economic recovery and spin doctors are saying that we […]

Commentary

Stop the Lies about the Financial Meltdown

March 10, 2011 villagechief 0

Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal#10) – “I pledge…Every American lives in safe, decent, affordable, and energy efficient housing on fair terms.” One of the National Urban League’s four I AM EMPOWERED goals. No, President Obama was not born in Kenya. Superman is not real. And there is no Monkey-man roaming the streets of Hoboken […]

Chuck Hobbs

Rein in Spending? Let’s Talk Entitlements

March 10, 2011 villagechief 0

Chuck Hobbs, Esq. – Over the past two years, perhaps the most pejorative phrase used against President Obama is that of “socialist.” Well, at least pejorative phrases that can be repeated in polite company. Whenever the “S” word is thrown around folks immediately think of Hitler, Mussolini, Tito and other tyrants known by their last […]

Entertainment

In the Media Room with Tom Burrell

March 7, 2011 villagechief 0

MG Media – Tom Burrell has been one of America’s leading innovators in the world of images, advertising and marketing. During the 80’s and 90’s his name sake firm, Burrell Communications was one of the top ad agency’s in the world producing ground breaking media plans that helped corporations sell tens of millions of dollars […]

Commentary

“We the People” Does not mean “We the People”

March 6, 2011 villagechief 0

By Lucius Gantt – Conservative news pundits and reactionary Tea Party Republicans are quick to say that voting results in the 2010 elections were a mandate and accordingly the people have spoken. Well, “the people” are not just the ten, twenty or thirty percent of registered voters that went to the polls to cast votes […]

Video

American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires

March 6, 2011 villagechief 0

Environment

Death of a Dolphin Sparks Anger in the Gulf

March 6, 2011 villagechief 0

Capt Lori DeAngelis runs a boating business called Dolphin Queen Cruises, which ferries tourists in Orange Beach, AL, to see pods of dolphins at play in the Gulf. Capt Lori reveres dolphins. In fact, she used to be licensed to handle the federally protected mammals. “They are like kin to us,” she says. The BP […]

Blogs

The GOP wants Obama out, but offers no good replacements

March 6, 2011 villagechief 0

Is there a Republican out there with political skills to go up against President Obama? Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels or Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour? Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post breaks it down… For all their bluster about making Barack Obama a […]