The Rev. Jesse Jackson joined the fight against Detroit’s emergency financial manager on Friday, calling for mass, nonviolent protest in the city to fend off what he called an attack on residents’ voting rights. Jackson and several other opponents to an EFM pledged to file a lawsuit next week challenging the constitutionality of Michigan’s new […]
Jesse Jackson calls for protest against Detroit’s newly appointed financial manager
23 March 2013 by
What sequester? Department of Education posts six figure job.
20 March 2013 by
Federal budget cuts are sending a chill through the Native American school districts in Minnesota. (AP) The Department of Education’s sequester cuts are taking a brutal toll on federally-funded schools on Native American reservations, but the federal agency still found money to create a new six-figure job promoting “Educational Excellence for African-Americans.”School officials on reservations […]
Poisoned by dark forces…
17 March 2013 by
Venezuela’s interim leader has opened an investigation into the death of Hugo Chavez, amid speculation the late president’s cancer was the result of an elaborate poisoning plot by foreign enemies. The acting President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez’s chosen successor, told the Telesur TV network, “We have the intuition that our commander Chavez was poisoned by dark […]
Tunisians mark Shokri Belaid’s assassination. Turns into rally against government.
17 March 2013 by
Belaid, a leftist lawyer, was shot at close range outside his Tunis home on February 6 [Reuters] Thousands of Tunisians have taken to the streets of the capital Tunis to demand the fall of the Islamist government they blame for the assassination of a leading secular politician 40 days earlier. Saturday’s demonstration was the biggest since Shokri […]
Mr. President for Life
4 March 2013 by
These are the longest serving Presidents in power in Africa, but with President Hosni Mubarak forced out of power and King of Kings is dead Muammar Gaddafi, Now there is a newcomer on list at number 5 and a new number one on list. No 5: PRESIDENT YOWERI MUSEVENI of UGANDA 25 YEARS An ex-army […]
Connecticut state sentator – No female interns
3 March 2013 by
In defending himself over allegations that he made an inappropriate remark to a 17-year-old girl, Connecticut state Rep. Ernest Hewett (D-New London) may have dug himself into an even deeper hole. Hewett was already under fire for telling a high school senior who had described her fear of snakes in a public hearing that, “If […]