By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – Florida Governor-elect Rick Scott recently has garnered praise from Florida Tax Watch and the Southern Poverty Law Center for his plan to cut the state’s Department of Juvenile Justice budget by ending incarceration for certain juvenile offenders. While I join in the applause, I go further and suggest that the […]
Commentary
Secession/Civil War Anniversary Celebrations Miss the Mark
By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – December 20, 2010 marks the 150th anniversary of South Carolina’s bold secession from the Union. Several weeks later, on January 10, 1861, Florida followed suit and became an independent entity for several weeks until early February, when it joined South Carolina and five other states to form the Confederate States […]
Don’t Blame The Alcohol, Blame The Students
By Lucius Gantt – American students should be ashamed! Young people all around the world are rising up against government and corporate exploitation. And what are American students doing today? Sitting on their behinds, hoping for the best, playing cards and flunking all of their tests! The world’s economic crisis was rooted in the United […]
Some Want Jobs for Christmas
By Julianne Malveaux – In the weeks since the “shellacking” of the November 2 election, there has been much talk that the economy will turn around and, indeed, is on the mend. The indicators are better, both pundits and experts have been saying. The recession is over, according to these indicators, and it is unlikely […]
Black Republicans And The Color Line
By Raynard Jackson – Once again race has reared its ugly head with a Republican elected official. But, this time in a more subtle way. Incoming Republican congressman, Tim Scott has decided not to join the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in January. While I don’t necessarily have a problem with that, I am viscerally embarrassed […]
Auburn’s Cameron Newton Saga—Reggie Bush Part II?
By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – The NCAA’s ruling in the Cameron Newton fiasco strikes me as odd in two ways. The first is the fact that Newton, the Auburn quarterback who has sliced defenses on the ground and in the air in his first year since transferring from a junior college, has been declared eligible […]
Michael Vick—From Vick-tim to Vick-tory
By Raynard Jackson – Am I the only one who is sick and tired of the media coverage of NFL quarterback Michael Vick—post incarceration? Last July I wrote a column titled, “Michael Is A Vick-tim.” I discussed Vick’s going to jail for nearly two years for killing a couple of dogs. He has served his […]
The Power of Thought and How It Reforms Reality
By H. Lewis Smith – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1) “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”(Genesis 1:3) “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry […]
AIDS – Transcending Time
By Charles “Chaz” Hobbs – If one of age can remember back to the 1980’s you will remember the scores of news reports that caught our attention about the new, “Gay Plague,” that hit America’s homosexual community by storm. The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or commonly known as AIDS, was the penultimate disease that ravages one’s […]