By Lucius Gantt – The Florida State Senate and House of Representatives concluded their Legislative Session as they have always done. The majority Republican body did what Democrats do when they are in power. The voters that elected the GOP power brokers put the Republicans first and the Republicans put the people last! In the […]
Commentary
How Sunday’s Celebrity Apprentice highlighted Donald Trump’s problems with women and race
By Eric Deggans (TampaBay.com) – Talk about awful timing: In a media moment where even straight-arrow political reporter Bob Schieffer is calling his statements about the president racist, reality TV star and possible presidential candidate Donald Trump presided over an episode of Celebrity Apprentice Sunday in which all three black women still on the show […]
Chuck Hobbs’ Monday Musings on Tax Incentives for Big Oil Companies, Ghost of Terrorist Past, Florida Court Overhaul Fails
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? […]
Trump’s disrespect for President Obama
By Etan Thomas, Special to CNN – (CNN) — Donald Trump’s most recent challenge to President Barack Obama took me back to my collegiate years at Syracuse University. I had studied for two weeks straight for a calculus class, harder than I had ever studied in my life. After I completed my exam, I was […]
SEAL of Approval
By Raynard Jackson – Of course all the talk this week has been of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by the elite Navy SEAL Team 6. I was hoping, at least in the U.S., that this event would allow America to come together, if only for a moment, and reflect on what […]
Is Revenge the Answer?
By Carl DeWayne West (TBT News Service) – First, let me be one of the millions of well wishers thanking President Barack Obama for putting an end to a horrible chapter in America during my lifetime. I salute him and his decorated team of advisors. I’d like to especially thank our military that executed a […]
Housing Counseling Budget Cut – An Assault on the Middle Class
Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal#18) – If there was any doubt that middle and working class Americans are paying more than their fair share in the deficit reduction battles, the budget cuts recently enacted to prevent a government shutdown make it absolutely clear. Everything from Pell grants for college tuition to heating assistance for […]
Is U.S. Ready to Have Billionaire CEO as President?
Ted Santos (TBT News Service) – In 1992, Ross Perot ran for President of the US, earning 19% of the votes before dropping out and coming back. If he had won, would we have experienced this economic crisis? Or would he have used his business savvy to avert some of the financial challenges? Many people […]
Hobbs’ Monday Musings: Osama Bin Laden is Killed/Royal Wedding and a Funeral/Obama tours Alabama
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 […]