its been a month since alaska governor sarah palin has been named as john mccains running mate and she has already generated more scandals than most politicians do in their whole career. heres our list of the top 5
1. troopergate
read about troopergate here
2. membership in radical alaskan secessionist party akip
read about sarah palin and the akip here
3. pregnant teenage daughter
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midday open thread Post Source: americannonsense.com Posted: Sep 22 2008 22:22:00
josh marshall
republican s have decided that their argument on the credit crisis will be to argue that democrats created the crisis by forcing banks to give too many loans to black people and other minorities.
the obama campaign must have seen in its numbers the same thing a couple of public polls showed that north dakota was drifting out of contention. it has pulled its staff from the st... [Show More]
sigh
its almost too easy but its hard to pass up the hypocrisy in john mccains latest statement.
co ntinuing with his attempt to convince american voters that democratic presidential hopeful barack obama is little more than a celebrity republican opponent john mccain suggested today that flying off to attend a benefit concert headlined by barbra streisand is at odds with the man of the... [Show More]
r. kelly has avoided the press since being acquitted of child pornography charges in chicago until now. yesterday september 15 bet networks announced it landed the first official news interview titled r. kelly speaks with the rb star. the exchange presented as a halfhour special airs tonight. according to bet the grammy awardwinning rb artist who anticipates to seal this phase in his life will dis... [Show More]
links for 20080915 Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Sep 15 2008 18:35:09
wiretap magazine elections 2008 should we reduce the voting age
techpresident daily digest as the saying goes vote early often absentee
rock the vote in virginia highlighting student voting rights future majority
obama palin and young evangelicals future majority
the new jim crow gop destroying the black vote
jason pollock the importance of early voting
the world according to me 15... [Show More]
q a with dana kaplan Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Sep 05 2008 13:35:53
dana kaplan is the exectuive director of the juvenile justice project of louisiana. she had some interesting things to say about the evacuation and the return.
what was the local reaction to the mandatory evacuation
there is a museum called the back street culture museum which is kind of a home to a lot of mardi gras indians. on the night mayor nagin had the press conference and announced the man... [Show More]
evectors pagesplus Post Source: paolo.evectors.it Posted: Jul 22 2008 13:30:54
for the last 10 months at evectors we have been working on a new application which we are calling pagesplus.its not strictly a content management system most of the content is not authored within our application its more a content presentation system or if you like a tool to manage content flows in an editorial environment.the core of pagesplus is an aggregator which can digest any form of rssatom... [Show More]
confirming what a fox news channel insider told gawker nearly a week ago the cable news network is now confirming that civil rights leader jesse jackson referred to barack obama as a ner in front of cameras in fox news chicago bureau. although foxs bill oreilly last week aired other incendiary comments jackson made in front of the cameras about obama i.e. that he wanted to cut the democratic candi... [Show More]
...tter to the founder and chairwoman of radio one cathy hughes.
radio one is the largest radio broadcasting company that primarily targets africanamerican and urban listeners. one of its properties newsone.com reported receiving the ailes letter late yesterday. it confirms what oreilly factor ep david tabacoff told tvnewser that jackson did not use the phrase half breed n when talking about barack ... [Show More]
19 la cops are facing disciplinary measures following video footage that has recently been released showing la riot police using batons rubber bullets and other force to subdue demonstrators and journalists after a small group of agitators threw things at police during an immigration rights rally last year.
following an investigation by internal affairs cmdr. richard webb said there was enough evi... [Show More]
the new york city police department has extended its first official olive branch to the public.a as part of the process for eliminating the expansive divide between the public in the wake of the sean bell shooting verdict monday the department launched its initial community outreach program for cops.
over 1000 new recruits convened at the apollo theater for a fourday program entitled advancing com... [Show More]
yo whats up nation.a did you hear about that dude mansa musa muhummed the black polygamista over the last couple of years weve heard a lot about these polygamist compounds out west and hbo even highlights the lifestyle in its hit series big love but whats good with this dudehes wack and clearly on his own agenda.
during his on going trial his three wives and 19 children have been telling a jury ab... [Show More]
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...cials have proposed a citywide ban on the sale of blunts and loosies at corner stores bodegas. minneapolis st. paul minnesota recently issued a similar ban on all loose tobacco products.
according to newsone.com since 1998 small cigars have been the fastestgrowing segment of the expanding cigar market. from 1998 to 2006 consumption of large cigars increased by 45 percent while small cigar consumption... [Show More]
smart negro round 2 Post Source: afrogeekmom.blogspot.com Posted: May 15 2008 12:06:00
tanehesi coates on persistent claims that sexism is worse than racismdo something that will prevent you from speaking on evils youve never had the privilege of dancing with. i beg of youjust stop it. you arent qualified to speak on this. and the more you talk the more we know.angry black bitch on the rift between white feminists and feminists of coloranyhoo this rift aint new and it is layered wit... [Show More]
morehouse college is scheduled to make history on saturday when joshua packwood becomes the first white student to deliver the valedictory address in the schools 141year history.
the 22yearold from kansas city missouri will graduate with a perfect 4.0 gpa and a degree in economics and is headed for the wall street firm goldman sachs. although packwood considered stanford columbia and usc he was we... [Show More]
smart negro roundup Post Source: afrogeekmom.blogspot.com Posted: May 08 2008 10:31:00
ive given up blogging about politics but i still read plenty of political posts. so lets start a new tradition here at afrogeek mom and dad smart negro roundup thursdays. heres what caught my eye this weektanehisi coates there is no black working classthe surest sign of someone being an effete lattesipping liberal is their acceptance of hillary as an ambassador the white working class.bikari ki... [Show More]
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the cathy hughes run radio one media conglomerate has been making moves of expansion lately some good and somenot so promising.a today they took more step when they launched www.newsone.com which is eerily similar to new york times web portal but obviously from an all black perspective.
to launch the initiative newsone featured a special inside look at the life of malcolm shaba... [Show More]
there has been a ton of talk about bubble 2.0 it started with fred wilson back in march of 05 was picked up by vulture central in oct of the same year and has since since spawned everything from an official blog to a wikipedia entry. however the only sure sign that bubble 2.0 is in full effect is the recent launch of 5 major web sites focused on the black audience. the last time this many copycat... [Show More]
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