White House Spokesman Discusses Iran Deal, Syrian Refugees, ISIS, Venezuela
White House Press Secretary Josh EarnestMR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. Nice to see you all today. Finally Friday. I don’t have anything at the top, so let’s go…
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Toward The Looming US Fiscal Crisis
Lee Hamilton A couple of months ago, the Congressional Budget Office issued a sobering report on the U.S. economy’s long-term prospects. Not to put too fine a point…
Rangel On 9/11: We Must Do More For Victims and Victims’ Survivors
Rep. Charles Rangel Fourteen years ago on September 11th, our nation suffered a tragic loss of nearly 3,000 lives when terrorist attacked the World Trade Center (WTC) and…
Why County Clerk Kim Davis Is Not Above The Law
Kim Davis --no Rosa Parks Rowan County Clerk, Kim Davis, disagrees with the settled law of the land and is refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex Kentucky…
The New Southern Strategy: GOP Calumny Against “Black Lives Matter”
GOP should see this image daily--Cold blooded execution of Walter Scott For over a year Congress has ignored the problem of institutional racism within America’s police departments. The…
VICTORY: Effort To Kill The Iran Deal Dies In The Senate
President Obama and John Kerry The two-month Republican-led effort to kill the Iranian nuclear accord in Congress failed Thursday, after 42 Democrats filibustered a procedural vote related to…
The Ballot And American Democracy: One Step Foward One Step Back?
President Johnson and Dr. King seal the deal I graduated from high school just a few months before the monumental Voting Rights Act was passed on August 6,…
How The United States Operates Affirmative Action For Whites
Mitchell Zimmerman A New York Times obituary for Julian Bond, the civil rights icon who passed away this August, described the late leader as a “persistent opponent of…
CCRB: Police watchdog report shows dramatic impact of video
Richard Emery, CCRB Chairman Last October, the independent city agency charged with investigating allegations of police misconduct released a report on chokeholds — the controversial maneuver of at…
Republicans Preach Middle Class Values While Declaring War On Unions — Obama
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT, AT GREATER BOSTON LABOR COUNCIL LABOR DAY BREAKFAST This is a day where we celebrate the grit, the resilience, and the hard work of…