Month: January 2008

Sleeping with the Enemy

Apparently, ABC News got their mitts on some tapes of old Wal-Mart board meetings and aired a nasty piece on Hillary Clinton on this morning’s Good Morning America: In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of...

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Not Again, Ralph

So Ralph Nader has launched an exploratory website, looking at the possibility of running another vanity campaign. Ralph, please don’t. As much as I’m disappointed in the choices left for president, another Nader...

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John Edwards: Duty Performed

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing click to enlargeThere has been a lot of rage, tears and way to much “idiot Edwards supporter” language going on. Yes, I would have liked it if he...

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War On Drugs VII

     The thing that makes the war on drugs so insidious to me as a black man is not the fact that it has increased the number black felons or that it has turned our neighborhoods into war zones. No to me the one...

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Last Night I Saw a Public Service Ad

The ad in question stung me to my core. It was a heartrending experience, and I mean that. To the narration of the beautiful and eloquent Sarah McLachlan, my TV screen displayed pictures of unimaginable horror. Scarred faces,...

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