I read a story today about an act of valor so extraordinary the highest military honor should be a given. In October 2005, Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe, a career Army soldier, plunged into a burning Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq and pulled six other soldiers out of the [...]
Archive for December 9th, 2014
No black soldier has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That should change.
McCain reacts to CIA torture report
McCain: CIA Torture ‘Stained Our National Honor’ Sen. John McCain speaks more authoritatively about torture than most people, because he endured torture as a POW. Here’s what he said today after the release of the Senate’s torture report over the objections of many Republican[...]
What happens when a white guy refuses to put down a gun, refuses to identify himself, argues with the police, cusses the police, flips off the police, and refuses to comply with police orders?
Nothing. (Source: Daily Kos)[...]
Sharpton, Inc.
NY Police Murder Victim’s Family Bans Al Sharpton From Funeral — “Who Made You Our Family… Were they right? Family Of Unarmed Police Shooting Victim Tell Al Sharpton To Stay Away From His Services The family of a Brooklyn man — shot by a rookie…[...]
President Obama on Immigration
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Obama Puts Putin in Check.
PUTIN, 2005: “Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game.” RUSSIAN JOKE, 2015: Heard the one about Vladimir Putin? The oil price and the ruble’s value against the do[...]
Time for real progress
What some would consider progress over the last 60 years since the Montgomery Bus Boycotts is really just widespread tokenism. Progress for a few is not progress at all unless we are looking at it from an individualistic-assimilationist point of view. This view focuses on the success of a few whil[...]