I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking — with the comparatively few who understand the mechanics of banking but more particularly with the overwhelming majority who use banks for the making of deposits and the drawing of checks. I want to tell you what has [...]
Update: The U.S. House of Representatives has just defeated the bailout bill in today’s vote. Back to the drawing board. (yay!) But don’t take off your life jackets yet.
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From the people who brought you FEMA, our financial bailout has an official acronyn - TARP. That’s stands for Troubled Asset Relief Program. [...]
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I am not a public speaker. I am not a politician. I’m not here because I’m an actor. I’m here because I’ve got six kids. I don’t want it written on my gravestone, ‘He was not part of his times.’
Talk about drama. The stage is set. The lighting is adjusted. The sound checks are done. And now we’re missing one of the cast for tonight’s presidential debate - John McCain. If nothing else, McCain does have a flair for the dramatic. But drama is something we don’t need [...]
And this is just Round 1.
Dr King didn’t get famous making a speech called “I have a complaint. I have a critique. I have a list of things that thoroughly piss me off.” He had a vision, something that inspired people, communicated hope.
As I collect my business cards and badge to attend this year’s Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference, [...]
I hate when I can’t figure out how to insert Spanish punctuation into documents and messages from my keyboard. But I’d never forgive myself if I didn’t give a shout out for National Hispanic Heritage Month which started September 15th and ends October 15. And I would lose some major cool points with [...]
There appears to be a general apprehension in the country about the future. That apprehension undermines our faith in each other and our faith in ourselves — undermines that confidence. The idea that America today will be better tomorrow has become destabilized. It has become destabilized because of the recession and the sluggishness of [...]
If Bulwinkle and Rocky were a commentary on the Cold War when moose and squirrell debuted on national TV in 1959, then what was Woody Allen thinking in 1965? And now forty three years later we have the debut of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin who “can see Russia from my house” per the Tina [...]
This week’s Community Organizers Hall of Famer (HOF) is alive and well and doing great things in Washington, DC. He is Robert Egger, founder and president of D.C. Central Kitchen just blocks away from the U.S. Capitol. D.C. Central Kitchen trains unemployed men and women in marketable culinary skills and converts foods donated [...]
