Month: June 2013

Cops Beat Black Woman in TX

Two Jasper, Texas police officers, both white, brutalized a 25-year-old black female, Keyarika Diggles, who was in custody for failure to pay a $150 traffic fine. They apparently felt that her phone call to her mother was taking...

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Christie is So Screwed

I told you Chris Christie had no good options. He called a press conference today to announce that he had set the general election for Frank Lautenberg’s Senate seat for October 16th, just two weeks before his own general...

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It’s Hardball Time

And so it begins. President Obama has made three simultaneous nominations for vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. One of the seats has been vacant since September 2005, when John Roberts was...

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The GOP’s Myopic Strategy

Let’s consider this: Republicans say the 2014 election will be a referendum on Obama, the controversies that have plagued his second term and the implementation of the new healthcare law. A referendum is a “general...

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