It’s down to the wire on health care reform. Tomorrow’s the vote on the Hill. Rather than embed the President’s weekly, I thought today’s speech to the Democratic House was worth the post space. You can read and/or watch the President’s Weekly at this link.
This is the weekend of protests in the [...]
Quote of the day:
Who took the old Kucinich and replaced him with this pragmatic one? I like this new look much better.
Markos Moulitsas, Daily Kos
This week President Obama invited Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich to take a ride with him on Air Force One. Kucinich was one of the “progressive” holdouts on the health care [...]
Just as the state board of education in Texas takes the final steps to remove the secular Thomas Jefferson from its history text books, the President has set his focus on bringing the next generation up to speed via education standards, where the previous generation apparently failed (were failed). Some of the country’s most [...]
First this…
“As African-American players, we have a theory that baseball can go get an imitator and pass them off as us. It’s like they had to get some kind of dark faces, so they go to the Dominican or Venezuela because you can get them cheaper. It’s like, ‘Why should I get this kid from [...]
I haven’t said anything about the Oscars, and nothing much (definitely very little positive) about “Precious.” I had issues with the movie in the context of story, subject, society, vision, community. But I certainly respected Mo’Nique’s performance. She owned it, and I wished more of her interpretation of the role was [...]
Today’s the day I hustle my taxes off to the accountant, but int he meantime here are a few things that are happening this week:
The Alexandria African American Museum in Alexandria, VA is hosting the National Endowment for the Humanities traveling exhibit “
I’m in the middle of my tax preparations, but as I was saying….
President Obama visited Mrs. Wilkes’ in Savannah, Georgia March 2nd. That fried chicken looks good too. Here’s the menu.
Hey, Mrs. Wilkes has a cookbook!
The Health Care Summit at Blair House (across from the White House) is now in session. I’m listening on C-Span Radio. The WH video feed has a 2-3 second delay. C-Span on-line is 2-3 seconds ahead of the their radio feed. Since I have work to do at the [...]
The Hummer has been banished to Retro-World. And the kingdom rejoiced. Government supported General Motors is shelving the Hummer after a failure to land a sale with heavy equipment maker Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co. in China. What does China know that we don’t?
Hummer sales reached their peak in 2003 with [...]
What will Virginia be without the arts and humanities?
Both the Virginia Commission on the Arts and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities have been put on the chopping block by the state’s Appropriations Committee of the House of Delegates.
THE ARTS CALL TO ACTION
YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED
Actions by VA Advocates Can Make the Difference
SITUATION
On [...]
