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Oct 11, 2012

Commentary

Obama’s Rope-a-Dope

By Wilson Riles Columnist

Mitt Romney’s game is imperial power politics.Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. (Muhammad Ali, born January 17, 1942) invented ROPE-A-DOPE and astounded the known world. The quickness of his fists and feet were his physical weapons, although his vanity about his looks might have been a disadvantage at times where risking getting hit in the face might…

Mitt Romney’s game is imperial power politics.Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. (Muhammad Ali, born January 17, 1942) invented ROPE-A-DOPE and astounded the known world. The quickness of…

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Commentary

Sesame Skreets: Only Conservatives Dare to Make Children’s Show Icons into Political Prisoners – Point Blank

By Chris Stevenson Columnist

Hey You! Mr. Wannabe President, do us all a favor and keep your clammy, filthy, brown-facing, commercial airliner window-button-installing, ancestral-multiple-wives-spread-out-all-over-the-US-and-Mexico-nasty-ass-great-grands, Mitts off Big Bird. Far be it from me to question the conservative deep thinkers. I could easily say that the GOP is simply using that famous kid’s educational show, Sesame Street, as a metaphor…

Hey You! Mr. Wannabe President, do us all a favor and keep your clammy, filthy, brown-facing, commercial airliner window-button-installing, ancestral-multiple-wives-spread-out-all-over-the-US-and-Mexico-nasty-ass-great-grands, Mitts off Big Bird. Far be…

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Commentary

Revolution

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Obama, Klaidman writes, enshrined into law “a system he had once derided as a ‘legal black hole.’ This is, indeed, change! Gone is the primitive use of water hoses and dogs! The U.S. is high-tech, Smart, and Progressive! Tasers and rubber bullets now! Long Range Acoustic Device, a “‘sonic cannon,’” writes Paul Street, The Independent,…

Obama, Klaidman writes, enshrined into law “a system he had once derided as a ‘legal black hole.’ This is, indeed, change! Gone is the primitive use…

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Commentary

Assault on Workers Would Begin on Day One of a Romney Presidency

By John Funiciello Columnist

Some have said that Mitt Romney hates unions. More to the point, however, is that he appears to dislike workers more than their unions. Now, hate is a pretty strong word, but if you listen to him on the stump, especially when he is speaking to people of his own kind, the contempt comes pouring…

Some have said that Mitt Romney hates unions. More to the point, however, is that he appears to dislike workers more than their unions. Now, hate…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Chavez Supports Obama… The KKK Endorsed Ronald Reagan

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The GOP and the KKK are two-sides of the same coin.Be afraid, be very afraid, Venezuelan “dictator” Hugo Chavez, (at least as I pen this piece) is backing President Obama… Oh-my-god, good-lord above us, Mary-sweet mother of Jesus, if that’s not a “red-light” this President is a Black-hearted, and more importantly a Black-skinned Black Nationalist/Marxist/Communist/Socialist…

The GOP and the KKK are two-sides of the same coin.Be afraid, be very afraid, Venezuelan “dictator” Hugo Chavez, (at least as I pen this piece)…

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Commentary

Maroon

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

We must resist and refuse any efforts to wipe out our culture. The erosion of many of our African cultural traditions and foundations are most evidenced in our family and community life. Far too many African people in America are getting away from the essence of family life. The cultural tradition of African family life…

We must resist and refuse any efforts to wipe out our culture. The erosion of many of our African cultural traditions and foundations are most evidenced…

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