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• How Do I Get invited to the President’s Job Forum?

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
  Today the president announced he will convene a jobs forum in December. This is a meeting of people with jobs, CEOs, small business owners, economists, financial experts, and representatives from labor and non-profits. They will discuss job creation. So who is missing from this esteemed conclave? People without jobs. ...
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• Sheila Dixon’s Political future is on the line, and the Media is Obsessing Over Her Pumps

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
  Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon is on trial for allegedly stealing gift cards that were supposed to go to needy citizens.  Dixon is the first female mayor of the city and she has been under investigation for the past two years. If she is convicted she would be stripped of her office and possibly face jail time. She was ...
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• Hooray …Sammy Sosa Can Now Pass the Paper Bag Test

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
  Over the past few days we have seen the before and after pictures of Sammy Sosa the baseball great. He claims his lightened skin was caused by some face creams he was using. The cream must have been “bleach and glow”. Black people have been using skin lightening creams for years. The paper bag test was the ...
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• The Third Annual Masked Ball

  
  SFluxe — Authority: 433
  Pamela Joyner On October 24, 2009, Pamela Joyner and Fred Giuffrida opened the doors to their Presidio Heights home once again to raise funds for a worthy cause. With generous matching benefactor The Howard G. Buffett Foundation , Joyner and Giuffrida’s 3rd annual Masked Ball raised more than a half million ...
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• What is Veteran’s Day?

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
   Today while grocery shopping the cashier told me she went to the bank and she was surprised it was closed. She was in the parking lot with other customers and they didn’t know why it was closed either. She saw the sign on the door said it was Veteran’s Day. She then went to the Post Office only to be met with a ...
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• Editor Said No to Stimulus Monkey Cartoon and Was Fired

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
  This spring the New York Post published an offensive cartoon depicting the author of the stimulus plan as a wild gorilla. Since the President was the author many including myself took offense to the cartoon. I wrote a post that asked who is in the room when decisions are made to publish this kind of thing? We have ...
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• Is Michael Steele Trying Too Hard?

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
   Sunday Michael Steele was interviewed on Roland Martin’s show. During the course of the interview Steele said that some Republicans are scared of him. Over the past few days his words have come back to haunt him. This morning Joe Scarborough laughed about this comment as he did verbal impressions of the chairman, ...
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• UPS vs. FedEx Whiteboard Video

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 658
  Reason ’s Nick Gillespie has a bit of fun with the UPS-FedEx fight to make a larger argument about unions. What’s particularly amusing about this is that, rather than seeking to get the favorable regulatory treatment that FedEx enjoys, UPS is fighting to put FedEx under the same onerous rules. I’m reminded ...
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• What’s next for Precious Star Gabourey Sidibe?

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
  There is Oscar buzz around the performance of Gabourey Sidibe in the movie Precious. Her performance is said to be authentic, touching and in a word incredible. So what will she do after the hype of Precious has subsided? Will Hollywood open its wide arms and embrace this talented woman? No. Hollywood’s arms simply ...
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• Obama Hurt Deeds in Virginia

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 658
  Pollster Glen Bolger (a founding partner at my wife’s firm) looks at the data in the Virginia governor’s race and concludes that Barack Obama hurt Democrat Creigh Deeds. At the end of tracking, we added some questions paid for by the Republican National Committee specifically to measure the Obama effect. ...
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• Abbas: Palestinian Authority May Disband

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 658
  Mahmoud Abbas is threatening to resign and disband the Palestinian Authority altogether. The collapse of the Palestinian Authority, Israel’s negotiating partner, was raised as a possibility on Monday, as several aides to its president, Mahmoud Abbas, said that he intended to resign and forecast that others ...
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• Jodi Rell Not Running

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 658
  Jodi Rell, the “Republican” governor of Connecticut, has announced that she will not seek re-election. In a surprising announcement, Mrs. Rell, 63, did not immediately give a specific reason for her decision, saying only, “At some point, you know inside that it is time to begin a new chapter in life.” ...
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• DC Sniper Scheduled to Die Tonight

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
    In 2002 the DC area was terrorized by an insidious sniper. He killed 10 people and injured others. People had no idea of who was doing this or why  or where  would they strike next. The killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were finally caught outside of Baltimore. In August of this year I had the ...
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• Magistrate recommending Forsyth County be barred from allowing sectarian prayer before meetings

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  Winston-Salem Journal : "A magistrate is recommending that Forsyth County be barred from allowing sectarian prayers at meetings of the board of commissioners . . . Mike Johnson, the ADF attorney representing the county, said final ruling is about a month away, and that he will be filing a brief outlining his ...
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• Magistrate says Forsyth prayer policy unconstitutional

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  FOX8 News : "A federal magistrate has recommended that prayers referencing Jesus and other sectarian deities made before meetings of the Forsyth County Commissioners are unconstitutional . . . The county was represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, which defended the county at no charge . . . The Alliance Defense ...
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• Judge: Forsyth County commissioners’ prayer unconstitutional

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 436
  (via news release:) WINSTON-SALEM – The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation (ACLU-NCLF) and the Winston-Salem Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State applauded a court ruling today by Magistrate Judge Trevor Sharp finding that the use of sectarian ...
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• Berlin Wall Fall: 20 Years Later

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 658
  Twenty years ago today, I was leading a rocket artillery platoon in live fire exercises at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Eastern Bavaria.  Some 400 kilometers to the north, the Berlin Wall was coming down.   Back in my teaching days, I jokingly used this coincidence to illustrate the post hoc ergo propter hoc ...
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• Why are We Working Ourselves to Death?

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
   Everyone is feeling the stress of this economy. Those of us without jobs are looking and those of you with jobs are complaining, and justifiably so. I emailed a friend of mine who I had not seen at church and she responded that she is doing the job of 3 people because her job has cut back on personnel. She said ...
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• I Wanted to See Precious November 6th, but It Was Not In My City

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
   When I saw the promos for Precious I marked my calendar. The movie was scheduled to be released on November 6th. So on Friday I went online to see where it was playing, but I could not find it. I called a friend of mine and she said it was opening in selected cities on Friday and unfortunately our city was not one ...
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• Was Fort Hood Massacre ‘Terrorism’?

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 658
  Nidal Malik Hasan is a Muslim who killed 14 people. Does that make him a terrorist? Some think so. Sen. Joe Lieberman called the Fort Hood massacre an act of “Islamist extremism” – even as top Army brass warned Sunday against guessing at a motive, fearing backlash against Muslim soldiers. “There are ...
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