Carl Bloice

From Ancient Times: Pay Workers Their Wages Solidarity America By John Funiciello BlackCommentator.com Columnist Cheating workers out of their just wages is as old as the written word – and probably older. As long as rules have been written down, there have been instructions about how to treat workers and their work. Apparently, not everyone…

The U.S. Congress that convened for its limited “lame duck” session this week has a lot on its plate; it will act – or not act – on some of the pressing issues facing the nation, wrap up its business and go home for the holidays. From then until the new Congress convenes in January…

The bloggers were right, “it was about the jobs, jobs, jobs,” Dave Johnson wrote on the Campaign for America’s Future webpage election day. “For the first half of the year all the progressive bloggers were saying that the November election is going to turn out very, very badly for Democrats if they don’t focus on…

Last week, President Obama took questions from an audience of young people, in person and by way of Twitter, during a session streamed live on the Web. At one point a young black man complained that despite all the government recent spending “our unemployment rate still rises” and that even though he is a college…

Thomas Friedman has my empathy, as in I feel for you bro. I think he really is alarmed. He just got back from Beijing and while there h e wrote back, “China is doing moon shots. Yes, that’s plural. When I say ‘moon shots’ I mean big, multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing investments. China has at least…

Obama, Jobs, Poverty, Taxes & the ‘Enthusiasm Gap’ Left Margin By Carl Bloice BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Toward the end of last month, the New York Times said editorially: “Mr. Obama also needs to inspire Americans who have been ground down by the economic crisis and Washington’s small-bore sniping. He needs to rally the nation around…

The question central to Ron Walter’s academic pursuit and his practical political activity – African American political leadership – has been, and remains, central to the advancement of a progressive agenda, not just for black people but for the country as a whole. Lord knows the country is now experiencing a leadership crisis that is…

The way the major mass media tells it, the only significant dissenting Palestinian voice about the wisdom of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accepting the invitation to travel to Washington for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama is the militant group Hamas. Not by a long shot. Eleven groups, including…

A Hoop Dream, Politics & the Long Reach of High Tech Money Left Margin By Carl Bloice BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Larry Ellison was ready to pony up more that $400 million of his own money to buy the Golden State Warriors but, alas, it was not to be. A couple of entertainment moguls came up…