Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category

Impeachment Is the Only Salve to the Constitutional Crisis Brought on by Bush’s Commutation of Libby’s Punishment

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

With the commutation of the prison sentence of Irv Lewis Libby, President George Walker Bush has sent the country into a constitutional crisis. The President now presents a far graver threat to the constitution of the United States of America than the phantom menaces of Osama Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein. This constitutional crisis, a final symptom of a Presidency arrogant of power and disdainful of democratic rule and republican government, can only be a assuaged by formal trials of impeachment.

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Africa’s Sorrow

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Read about Zimbabwe’s present agonies, and you can only weep.

New Orleans Only Dangerous to Young Black Criminals

Saturday, June 30th, 2007
“We have a very violent city if you’re between 18 and 35 years old, an African-American male, and you are involved in the drug trade,” he[New Orleans Juvenile Court Judge David Bell] said. “But if you don’t fall in that category, we are a very safe city.”

As quoted by WWLTV, this is is both sad, as it is likely to be largely true, and also gratifying, as it is about time someone confronted the epidemic of criminality in the Black community.