This speech is so great it surpasses King’s “I have a dream” (Chris Matthews), It’s an unprecedented masterpiece, a breakthrough!! No one has ever talked this way about race before in America. It will be read and studied for generations to come….
No, really, stop you have to read some of it right now:
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Barack Obama’s speech is already being lauded as a major speech on race in America. It was not. It was a campaign speech - a very good one, but with a select agenda, which is not the curing of America’s racial tensions, but getting Barack Obama elected President.
Although his presentation of the differing […]

Here’s a clip from Irish National Television on the Taosaich’s (Prime Minister Bertie Ahern) visit to Washington for St Patrick’s Day:

Former Dkos diarist Alegre, now at mydd.com has an excellent post this morning laying out Hillary Clinton’s impressive record on Northern Ireland. While many have insisted that Mrs. Clinton did nothing but attend “tea parties” I hope that this article will put that lie to rest. (if only)

At any rate, Happy Patrick’s Day […]

While on his “non-political” visit to Europe this week, Sen. John McCain happened to have a fundraiser with a bunch of ex-pats in Britain hosted by none other than Lord Rothschhild of the House of Rothschild
Poor John McCain, now he’s going to lose the kooky, survivalist wing of the Republican party […]

Some mornings it is really a challenge to know which issue, or news story merits front page attention on this blog.
There are just so many and they’re all so awful. Just spending a few hours each morning digesting the latest is quite enough to sink one’s entire day into a melancholic stupor.
The surest way to […]

Walter Williams and Bryan Jones, from the University of Washington have just published a new book called The Politics of Bad Ideas.
Today they have an op-ed in the Seattle Post Intelligencer on the genesis of the new “economic stimulus” plan that is an excellent distillation of the ways which ideology and sheer pig-headedness […]

Wow.

So, it’s “Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger”The theology is as whacky as John Hagee….Here I see is a response to Rev. Wright - from a black lesbian “visual artist” in
Philadelphia: here
The problem with Rev Wright’s theology is not how he expresses the rage all enslaved people feel, nor is it his prophetic condemnations […]

Admiral Fallon resigned his post as head of CentCom this afternoon, though the European Press seems pretty clear that he was pushed out.

A voice on the tee vee says that Defense Secretary Gates gave Admiral Fallon the message - that he should resign - by refusing to take his phone calls. Refusing to take […]

The first version of this story, the one that had the Gov caught up in an ongoing federal investigation of a high end prostitution ring, appears to be misleading at best. More recent coverage suggests that Gov Spitzer was the target all along and that the Emperor’s Club was sort of a bonus.
Curious they […]