The Obama Administration has done little, so far, to target higher rates of unemployment in communities of color as a result of the recession — let alone the existing conditions that lead to ongoing disproportionately high unemployment rates, specifically within African-American communities.
9/11. Warrantless wiretapping. Two wars. Jack Abramoff. CIA black flights. Abu Ghraib. The apparently fake turkey photo-op. Gitmo. “Mission Accomplished.” Bank bailouts. Playing guitar while New Orleans submerged. The Bush…
Sean Hannity’s “Great American Panel” last night was anything but. Epitomizing America — if I can interpret the name — were cacophonous guests Rev. Al Sharpton, rocker Meat Loaf and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who had a shoutathon about…
The St. Paul Pioneer Press sees fit today to run a Jan. 5 Wall Street Journal editorial on the Minnesota U.S. Senate recount that nearly everyone but Rush Limbaugh has laughed off for its woolly inaccuracies…
What should we make of Minnesota Democrats Exposed blogger Michael Brodkorb’s attack on Secretary of State Mark Ritchie for including a benign mention of The UpTake’s live video feeds of the Canvassing Board’s recent meetings? A tempest in a teapot? An insider media squabble? Try this on for size: Maybe it’s part of a GOP plan to smear the recount process that seems increasingly likely to result in Republican Sen. Norm Coleman’s defeat.
Flying Spaghetti Monster and Lizard People got the big press at yesterday’s State Canvassing Board’s review of challenged ballots in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race, but another challenge by Coleman shows how the incumbent has, in the words of TPM’s…
If you accept taxpayer money, you have to accept that you’re going to receive public scrutiny. That simple point seems to be eluding Minnesota Teen Challenge (MNTC), the faith-based drug treatment program which secured a federal earmark in early 2008 arranged by Rep. Jim Ramstad, for its “Know the Truth” program which aims to prevent drug use.
Last week, the program sent two nearly identical letters to both the Minnesota Independent and the Huffington Post responding to articles critical of their programming.
A sign that the culture war is being waged anew took up an entire page of the New York Times on Friday. United under the moniker “No Mob Veto,” a coalition of religious-right figures vowing to shame “anyone who resorts to the rhetoric of anti-religious bigotry” placed the ad, which has raised ire among gay and lesbian activists and others. But the group’s role in championing religious freedom is suspect: Several of its members have expressed bigotry against Mormons, Muslims and Jews.
Even before all the facts are out, the Republican National Committee is trying to link Barack Obama to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested today for allegedly trying to sell off Obama’s Senate seat…
With Pennsylvania Democrats confirming Chris Matthews is contemplating a Senate run against Republican Sen. Arlen Specter in 2010, The Hill wonders if the “Hardball” host will face what I’m calling the Franken Factor: intense scrutiny of public utterances made…
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