The former Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, whose grandparents were Mexican immigrants spoke out against Republican proposals to change the 14th amendment to prevent automatic citizenship for all children born in the U.S., regardless of parents’ immigration status. In an op-ed commentary for “the Washington Post” Mr. Gonzales opposed G.O.P plans to revise the 14th for [...]

   Dr. Wolassa KumoIntroduction The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation have published their 2010 Index of Economic Freedom under the theme “The Link Between Economic Opportunity and Prosperity” covering 183 countries across 10 specific freedoms: business freedom, trade freedom, fiscal freedom, government spending, monetary freedom, investment freedom, financial freedom, property rights, freedom from corruption [...]

   Columnist – John SammonI call for an immediate attack on Saudi Arabia to take over their oil and to install an American-backed regime in Riyadh friendlier to the United States. It’s been eight whole years, and we haven’t attacked a third country yet. We only attack countries weaker and smaller than ourselves. It was Saudi [...]

   Columnist – John SammonThis little North Korean boy jeering at me with his fist at the Bridge of No Return at Panmunjom in 1972 is the reason North Korea continues to represent a threat to world peace. The children were brought in on a bus from North Korea and toured the North Korean side of [...]

His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship — between business partners — and LeBron honored his contract. — Rev. Jesse Jackson on Cavs owner Dan Gilbert’s comments about LeBron James (SEE BELOW). CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson criticized Cavaliers owner Dan [...]

Bolt Again, and Again! 19.19 World Record in Berlin! BERLIN — Bolt Runs Away With Another One: Usain Bolt ran the 200 meters in 19.19 seconds, 11-hundredths of a second faster than the world record he established a year ago at the Beijing Olympics. So it went again Thursday at the world championships on the [...]

I’ve said goodbye to a champion of logic, Christopher Hitchens, who has cancer. “Hitler’s Auschwitz & Bush’s Abu Ghraib epitomize Christianity. Christians are cowardly hypocrites who travel in packs like wild dogs, but are without the loyalty. Islamists are extremely dangerous fools because, unlike the Christians, they believe the dogma. Judaism is the study of [...]

The man who wants to be speaker of the house, did it again. House Republican leader John Boehner, unveiled what had been billed as a major economic speech; The GOP roadmap for the U.S. economy — meaning this was supposed to be a serious speech with thoughtful prescriptions that grapple honestly with the complexity of [...]

Huffington Post: Black members of the tea party movement last Wednesday rejected charges that the group’s activists are racist, saying they oppose President Barack Obama because of his policies not his skin color. The members gathered at a Washington news conference in the wake of allegations about its rank and file, heightened by the recent [...]

“Venezuelan President is offering parents a cure for children who don’t want to go to sleep. Have them watch his televised speeches. ‘It seems that there are mothers here who, instead of putting their kids to sleep with cartoons, put them to sleep with Chavez, ‘ he said. ‘And the child dozes off and dozes [...]

   By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis    [ Enlarge ]Continuing the series of articles on the insightful documentation provided by the Russian Military Officer, Explorer, and Orthodox Monk in his books about his deeds and excursions, observations and explorations in Abyssinia (undertaken over three years 1896 — 1899), I herewith republish the chapter on the Abyssinian church [...]

   By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis    [ Enlarge ]Continuing the series of articles on the insightful documentation provided by the Russian Military Officer, Explorer, and Orthodox Monk in his books about his deeds and excursions, observations and explorations in Abyssinia (undertaken over three years 1896 ? 1899), I herewith republish the chapter on the family of [...]

   Columnist – John SammonThis is to formally claim victory for all those who opposed the war in Iraq. You’ve been vindicated. The bad guys, those who supported the war and especially the war criminals Bush and Cheney, who are walking around free because Americans lack the backbone to admit wrong, have been proven wrong. Obama’s [...]

Right-wing “cannot wait” for gov’t shutdown, “just like in ’95 and ’96″: The right-wing media is “giddy” over the possibility of winning a Republican majority in Congress in order to shut down the government. The shutdowns cost the government at least $800 million, furloughed over a million workers, delayed veterans benefits, shut down federally funded [...]

   By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis    [ Enlarge ]In an article titled “Gwynne Dyer and his Falsehood about the Nile, Egypt, Sudan (Ethiopia) and Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia)“, I refuted inaccuracies, falsehood, and deceitful information included in Gwynne Dyer’s farfetched article “Egypt’s neighbors press for more Nile water”. I will complete the extensive refutation with the present [...]

   [ By: Howard Fineman ]You can still buy an American newspaper at the kiosk in Rome’s Piazza Colonna, but you have to ask the lady behind the counter. She turns from the window, paws through a stack on the floor, and produces an International Herald Tribune, holding it at arm’s length like a day-old fish. [...]

McCain vs Obama McCain and Obama debated for the second time, in Nashville. FactCheck.org noted some misleading statements and mangled facts Sphere: Related Content

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: A perfect illustration of how rights are taken away in the United States: Option one: The most direct option is to try to make that thing illegal. If it turns out that you are treading on people’s constitutionally protected rights in order to try to make this thing illegal, then the courts, of [...]

Frank Rich: Another weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring “Real Americans” who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where they jeered the “ground zero mosque.” This weekend, the scene shifted to Washington, where the avatars of oppressed white Tea Party America, Glenn [...]

   Columnist – John SammonTiger, you don’t have to apologize. Don’t hang your head in front of a national audience. You can date and fool around with whom ever you want to, and if the fans don’t like it, FU.’K ‘EM! You’re not an elected official with a constituency that you owe allegiance to. You’re a [...]

A principle shareholder of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.(Corpse), the parent company of Fox News, is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the nephew of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, and one of the world’s richest men. Through his Kingdom Holding Co., Alwaleed owns about 7% of News Corp., or about $3 billion of the media giant. He also [...]

Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travelled to Uganda to trace the influence of American evangelical leaders on a proposed law that could make being gay punishable by death. The episode “Missionaries of Hate” aired on Wednesday, July 14. Vanguard, airing weekly on Current TV Wednesdays at 10/9c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents [...]

Paul Krugman: In recent weeks, G.O.P. leaders have come out for a complete return to the Bush agenda, including tax breaks for the rich and financial deregulation. They’ve even resurrected the plan to cut future Social Security benefits. But they have a problem: how can they embrace President Bush’s policies, given his record? After all, [...]

The summer months are typically when the quality of political discourse in this country reaches its yearly nadir. Washington tends to slow down from June to August, and people who hold moderate interest in the political process instead turn to barbecues and baseball games. As a consequence, the people who remain engaged are those who [...]

By: Leonard Pitts, Jr. Clint Eastwood has had it up to here with sensitivity. “A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness,” he recently told the New York Times. “…The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so” … [...]

Ambiance Congo is hosted by David Noyes from Richmond, Virginia [USA] on WRIR, Richmond Indie Radio. The broadcast specializes in Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The DRC(Democratic Republic of the Congo) was formerly known as Zaire and is sometimes referred to as Congo-Kinshasa to distinguish it from the Republic of the Congo [...]

Diva Tshala Muana has been around for a long time. She is the leading singer of Mutuashi, the Afro-Cuban-influenced dance music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tshala Muana is known for her sensuous stage outfits and extremely sexy dancing. The Baluba folk music tradition has also played an important role in the development [...]

   [ By: Eric Alterman ]Eric Alterman on why liberals should root for Gingrich in 012: He’s fired up the ground zero mosque debate, stirred buzz by visiting Iowa, and is Meet the Press‘ favorite guest. Most of my liberal friends are rooting for Sarah Palin to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, believing that, [...]

How cruel to have it all (St. Louis Rams) snatched away from you. And why? Because a bunch of black African-American Negroes start making noise? What reason do they have to be upset with you? You’re a college dropout and OxyContin junkie who somehow managed to climb to the top of the media pile. You’ve [...]

This photo released by Guinness World Records shows Giant George, a Great Dane from Tucson, with his owner David Nasser. The Arizona Great Dane stands 43 inches from paw to shoulder. [ READ MORE ] ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Amazon.com Widgets ————————————————————————————————————————————————- [emininmall] Sphere: Related Content

NOTES: In logic, an argumentum ad populum (Latin: “appeal to the people“) is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it; it alleges: “If many believe so, it is so.” This type of argument is known by several names, including appeal to the masses, appeal to [...]

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s racially charged rant, in which she “articulated the ‘n’ word all the way out — more than one time,” is only the latest in a year of public displays of racially loaded rhetoric by right-wing media figures. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit msnbc.com for [...]

   By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis    [ Enlarge ]In three early articles, I examined issues pertaining to the historical rivalry and the real balance of power between Sudan (real, historical Ethiopia) and Abyssinia (falsely and criminally re-baptized as Ethiopia) in respect with Nile — related issues, and the Anglo-French colonial onslaught against Africa — for which [...]

Rush Limbaugh equated building a mosque at Ground Zero to constructing a Hindu Temple near the Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor. Rush also said: “Since Clinton was called first black president, ‘why can’t we call IMAM Obama America’s first Muslim president?’” Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Rush: Since [...]

½ governor Sarah Palin tweeted, “(Dr.Laura: don’t retreat…reload! Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence “isn’t American, not fair”). Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, [...]

Conservatives are racists. Bigotry has been a staple of the Republican Party for years — presently aided by their terror subsidiary — the viciously racist “Tea-baggers” — the new White Power Movement, who have embraced some imaginary threat of the scary black person in the White House. Fox News is the most egregious right-wing media [...]

TheSpoiler.co.uk: Sport tries its best to be clean, porno is always dirty. Sport is noble and healthy. Porno is always bad and wrong. Yet for all their efforts to keep a distance, they just can’t help running into each from time to time and making sporno, without meaning to at all. Click on pictures to [...]

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They came to Green Point Stadium, Cape Town, in droves, the Boers — to cheer their team from the motherland. The Boers are descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle [...]

Following former President Bill Clinton’s hospitalization to undergo a procedure on his heart, several conservative media figures used the incident to attack Democratic health care reform efforts. For example, Rush Limbaugh said he was “thankful we don’t yet have Obamacare,” or “the death panel” might not have approved Clinton’s surgery. [ READ MORE ] Elsewhere, [...]

Washington– President Obama received Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in the Oval Office on Thursday, but the two made no progress in bridging the enormous gulf that divides them — and the country — over illegal immigration and border security. Brewer, who recently signed the racist law requiring Arizona police to check the status of people [...]

   By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis    [ Enlarge ]Continuing the series of articles on the insightful documentation provided by the Russian Military Officer, Explorer, and Orthodox Monk in his books about his deeds and excursions, observations and explorations in Abyssinia (undertaken over three years 1896 — 1899), I herewith republish a first part from his second [...]

Alvin Greene: Victorious Mystery Candidate With an Obscene Past — He beat the establishment candidate in the Democratic primary race for South Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat, but nobody’s ever heard of him. Who is Alvin Greene? [ READ MORE ] Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit msnbc.com for [...]

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NOTES: After their increased immigration to the US in the late 19th century, Italian Americans also became lynching targets, chiefly in the South, where they were recruited for laboring jobs. On March 14, 1891, eleven Italian Americans were lynched in New Orleans after a jury acquitted them in the murder of David Hennessy, an ethnic [...]