Month: July 2008

Obama: What He Is & What He Isn’t

Crossposted from MY LEFT WING My friend PHIL. I. STINE, one of the few Republicans I actually respect and admire, seems to think the liberal and not-so-liberal left (I being one of the former, the majority of the Netroots Nation...

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Dead Black Man Tasered 9 Times by White Cop

A 21 year old black man in Winnfield, Louisiana, named Baron “Scooter” Pikes, was tasered 9 times in 14 minutes by a white police officer in January after he was arrested and handcuffed. He died. Seems a tad...

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Where are them neocons?

As I watched a video of Barack Obama playing hoops with US soldiers at a base in Kuwait,it suddenly dawned on me that a disproportionate number of the soldiers,men and women, were black.Forget the sociological and economic...

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Open Thread

I’m reporting in from the Austin airport. This is going to be a travel day for me. I can’t wait to get back to the ‘real’ east coast. How is the Barack Obama World Tour going?

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