President Obama will visit Harlem Tuesday for a fundraiser that’s expected to take in $1.5 million for the Democratic National Committee. Obama will preside over a $30,800-per-person event for about 50 people at the acclaimed Red Rooster restaurant on Lenox Avenue, reports the Daily News. It’s his first visit to Harlem since being elected to […]
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Gates Says Targeting Qaddafi Goes Beyond UN Resolution on Libya
By Viola Gienger (Bloomberg.com) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the U.S. military campaign against Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi should be limited to the terms of a United Nations resolution rather than being broadened to target the leader directly. The coalition with the U.K., France and Arab countries relies on the terms laid out in the […]
Both Parties Must Come Together on a Budget that Cuts Wasteful Spending Without Sacrificing Investments in the Future
President Obama addressed the proposed budget cuts in his weekly address. His goal to cut “wasteful spending without sacrificing job-creating investments in education, innovation, and infrastructure,” and still meet congressional Republicans halfway seems a bit illogical but, let’s give the President the benefit of the doubt. At least they’re still talking about creating jobs because […]
Obama Gives Props to Romney on Health Care
(CNN) – In a moment that Mitt Romney’s future GOP opponents couldn’t have scripted better themselves, President Obama Monday issued a full-throated embrace of the former Massachusetts governor’s stance on health care. “I know that many of you have asked for flexibility for your states under this law,” Obama said during a speech to a […]
Rep. John Lewis, Maya Angelou, and President GW Bush Receive Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civilian honor presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. The honorees are: • Former President George H.W. Bus • Chancellor Angela […]
President Obama Gives Moving Speech Memorializing Victims of Arizona Shooting (video)
Houston Man Cleared by DNA After 30 Years in Prison
By Allan Turner, Houston Chronicle – The reliability of eyewitness identification in criminal cases took another sock in the eye Tuesday as Cornelius Dupree Jr., a Houston man sentenced to 75 years in prison for a rape-robbery he did not commit, walked out of a Dallas courtroom a free man. Dupree, 51, served 30 years […]
Political Activist Ed Forchion Continues to Campaign in National Effort to Legalize Marijuana
Hollywood, CA – The campaign to legalize marijuana has been an ongoing one for decades now. Cause celebs like the recently departed Jack Herer, the recently imprisoned Eddie Lepp and the incarcerated Mark Emory are men who sacrificed their lives and livelihood for a vision that now boasts 14 states where legalization is in some […]
Davis bids goodbye to politics, Alabama
By Deborah Berry – Washington – The last few weeks of the lame-duck session have dragged on for Artur Davis, who has had little say during the final weeks of his congressional career. The Alabama Democrat no longer has an office in the ornate Cannon House Office Building. Like other lawmakers who lost races this […]