Huffington Post: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday that Democrats are giving up on trying to break a Republican filibuster of a bill to reauthorize several expired domestic aid programs, including extended unemployment benefits. “We’re going to move to the small business jobs bill,” said Reid when asked what would happen if the [...]

   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 [...]

On Monday on Fox News, Beck claimed that President Obama gave $2 billion to the Brazilian state-run oil company PetroBras “just days” after conservative boogeyman George Soros strengthened his investment in the company. The very next evening, the two Republican congressmen repeated Beck’s baseless charge on the House floor. While criticizing the moratorium on offshore [...]

“Finally, someone is bringing Martin Luther King’s movement back to its conservative white roots.” — Stephen Colbert Media Matters: Top U.S. civil rights leaders accuse Beck of hijacking Dr. King’s legacy, plan 8/28 counter-rally Some of the nation’s top civil rights leaders are angrily accusing right-wing media star Glenn Beck of “hijacking” the legacy of [...]

Huffington Post: Republican Senatorial candidate Rand Paul wants to build a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. It’s a rather ho-hum proposition in the larger context of conservative ideas — except that Paul wants that fence to be electric and he wants it built underground. Among the variety of proposals to stem illegal immigration along the [...]