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About the real Obama Sowell writes in his article "A Post-Racial President?": An 18th century philosopher said, "When I spea...

Idiot is as idiot writes From the "pundit" that discreetly (without directly referring to me) called me an idiot once - and I hav...

He just can't run away from those I did a quick, rough recording of Obama's speech directly from the computer, and edited out most o...

And any "nice guy" traits are questionable I will venture to say that we know that Obama is not a nice guy. I say this because: - ...

Premonition of things to come Emmitt Till's murder catapulted America into the civil rights movement. Now, more than fifty years later, ...

Going to waste I posted early this morning on pop star Mika's new song "We are golden." Mostly, it was a negative view of the...

In just forty years Pop singer Mika looks like he could be one of the scavenger youths from Doris Lessings Memoirs of a survivor. I think p...