SPIKE LEE’S NEXT REQUIEM After visiting New Orleans for the first time in 2007, I bought my own DVD copy of “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts,” Spike Lee’s HBO documentary about the slow emergency and recovery response to the Katrina tragedy. The documentary was one of the few voices at the [...]
This is the live feed from BP of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. They’ve restarted the “top kill” process of shooting heavy drilling mud into the hole to essentially “plug it up.” The video source and ticker is from PBS’s Newshour. The live feed was ordered by the U.S. Government. What a [...]
President Obama will be making another trip to the Gulf tomorrow. But today, the President wanted to make clear who was in charge of the response effort. The American people should know that from the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort. As far as I’m concerned, [...]
From Alex at Servicemembers United. I met Alex at the “Ask Not” events for Community Cinema in 2009. Dear DADT Repeal Supporter, We wanted to share some exciting news with you before we even speak to the media about this new development. After relentless pressure, the White House and the Pentagon have finally changed their [...]
Yesterday, in a 9-5 vote, the Texas Board of Education has replaced the “Slave Trade” with the “Atlantic Triangular trade” for its textbooks and social studies standards over the next ten years. And the United States is no longer a “democracy” but a “constitutional republic.” Thomas Jefferson has nothing over John Calvin, a French theologian [...]
