Doug Wilder: It'll Be Rough But Obama's Got It (He Hopes)
This is the latest installment on my series looking at the opinions of prominent black Americans on Barack Obama's candidacy. The first time around I highlighted black conservatives. After an...
View ArticleAre Obama's Chickens Coming Home to Say They Have Nothing to Apologize For?
I checked out Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Hallelujah strut in Amen Corner of the NAACP convention. He's been making the rounds after an interview with Bill Moyers followed by at a press conference today and...
View ArticleAn Obama Family Album
Most people don't talk about it that much, but the Obama family is the most telegenic potentially presidential family in recent memory. And this is true no matter how you feel about them. The press...
View ArticleIt's Over, Right? Obama Won, Right?
Politico's David Paul Kuhn tries to say that it is time to turn the lights out on the Clinton campaign, and I agree with him. It's over. Really. It is. Obama won. It was a great race. Yadda, yadda....
View ArticlePlease, Stop Insulting Hitler's "Sui Generis" Art of Misery
Osama bin Laden is a parlor game compared to Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution," but people keep making the comparison anyway. Please, stop belittling the man's unholy horrors that brought the world to...
View ArticleIt's Now Barack Obama Versus An Old, Boring But Potentially Lethal John McCain
That was some warm up act.Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's gladiator epic, which lasted for more than a year, will be officially over when she endorses Obama and suspends her campaign on Friday....
View ArticleClinton Crack Is Whack! Just Say No, Media!
The following is a snark filled rant/column by The Black Snob on a crippling addiction sweeping the American press -- Clinton Addiction. The affects are crippling on campaign coverage as a gaggle of...
View ArticleJohn McCain, The Cindy Brady of Presidential Politics
Sometimes with all the attention paid to Barack Obama, the Clintons and soaring gas prices I forget that John McCain is running. Seriously. He's become the Cindy Brady of presidential candidates. Or...
View ArticleFrom Brangelina to O'Biden
When it comes to celebrity, we Americans have an obsession of smashing the names of famous couples together like Bennifer, Billary, Bennifer II, TomKat, Vaughniston, McGosling and of course the robust...
View ArticleTell the Industry That Cute, Little Black and Brown Girls Aren't Rare
After writing twostories on my Web site, The Black Snob, about the advertising/modeling industry suddenly scratching their heads and having their worlds turned upside down by clients wanting a more...
View ArticleThe "True" Believers On Gitmo
A group of pro-Gitmo politicians and activists met in New York. They claimed they believed in America, they just didn't believe America was strong enough to handle terrorists. They didn't believe in an...
View ArticleSay "Bah Humbug" to Cheney In A Gitmo Christmas Carol (Video)
Gather around your monitors and let New Security Action spin you a tale about a certain prison of ill-repute, Dick Cheney and a horrified Scrooge forced to witness the Ghosts of our "Tortured" past.
View ArticleCrazy Vs. Common Sense on Gitmo
White House Press Secy. Robert Gibbs didn't mince any words Tuesday when he unabashedly called some of the Great Right Wing Freak-Out over Guantanamo Bay detainees coming to a prison in Thomson, Ill....
View ArticleMore Crazy Talk On Gitmo
Sometimes to win a losing argument you just have to stop making sense. In the case of some Republicans and the prison at Guantanamo Bay playing "crazy" seems to be the best bet. Nothing like playing...
View ArticleFlip-flopping With Jim DeMint
Poor Sen. Jim DeMint. He just can't decide if he's unhappy with President Obama because of semantics or if he thinks the President is actually doing a good job with counter-terrorism. And it doesn't...
View ArticleNew York Times Recycles Debunked Gitmo Recidivism Story
Maybe they thought the report would be less wrong the second go round. For some reason, the New York Times thought it was fit to essentially reprint a retracted story about Gitmo detainees and their...
View ArticleMark Kirk: The Officer of Misinformation on Afghanistan
More than 500 people have been released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay because we had no reason to hold them. They were picked up for the wrong reasons in mass raids, locked away based on old...
View ArticleFormer Gitmo Guard Befriends Ex-Detainees Through Facebook (Video)
In one of the most amazing stories I've heard since the prison at Guantanamo Bay was opened, a former guard, Brandon Neely of Texas, has come out against the prison and is talking about his old job....
View ArticleEnough Fear: Some Common Sense on Gitmo (Video)
With the anniversary of the president's commitment to closing Guantanamo this week, New Security Action is releasing a new video highlighting Republican fearmongering on Gitmo, featuring veteran and...
View ArticleThe Politics of Torture and Guantanamo Bay
Combat Veterans and Senator Elect Scott Brown (R-MA) are arriving on Capitol Hill today with opposite messages. Your voice is needed too. More than 20 veterans working with New Security Action and...
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