Hi my name is George Cook. I am an African American writer and blogger. I am also the author of a new eBook for the Amazon Kindle Talk Honestly: One Black Man's Thoughts available here http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002E19JKU
I have ran in elections once as an...
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NYS Office of Children & Family Services (OCFS) Commissioner Gladys Carrion responds to Renee Greco's murder. The 24 year old youth counselor was bludgeoned to death on June 8th while working alone at Avenue...
Since taking office, President Barak Obama and his allies in Congress have careened into the headlines and pummelled Republicans still reeling from defeat and dissent within their own...
opinion by Mortal | 3 days ago | updated 3 days ago 182 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
Pennsylvania Republican State Senator John Eichelberger's comments incense LGBT activists. Eichelberger, who is sponsoring a Constitutional amendment to redefine marriage as between a man and a woman, made...
" Will recent GOP sex scandals affect upcoming races? The simple answer is – No! The Democrats won’t vote for them, Republicans will – those like Lou Dobbs who lean in that direction will probably – so the status quo will remain. It would be interesting to see if any...
Voters Pressing Democrats to Pass a "Public Option" Cross-posted at the Public Option Health Care Now blog.The Washington Post reports that liberal voters and organized groups of voters and spending money advertising in the states of Democrats who have expressed public...
Cross-posted at the Public Option Health Care Now blog.As I read Ruth Marcus' absurd arguments in the Washington Post today against a public option for health care, and as I follow the debate in other articles doubting that a public option is politically feasible, I become...
The United States Congress has passed the Climate Change Bill in a narrow 219-212 vote.Hailing the bill passage,US President Barack Obama described it as "a bold and necessary step".He looks forward to Senate...
created by WisdomMountain | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago 262 views | 0 recommendations | 5 comments
President Franklin D. Roosevelt said during his inauguration speech in 1933: " .... let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 4 wks ago | updated 1 wk ago 714 views | 52 recommendations | 20 comments
I really don’t know what Republicans expect, but – Sanford is a Republican – remember those family values? Some vague thoughts come to me about how he sid something in the past about those…now what was it? "(CNN) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford told the woman...
In a press conference this afternoon, President Obama defied right wing Republicans Sen. John McCain and Lindsay Graham's calls for US intervention in Iran. "At this afternoon’s press conference,...
Obama's broken promise has Gay Democratic donors boycotting a Democratic National Committee fundraiser to be held next Thursday, June 25th, because they are outraged by President Obama's legal brief filed last week...
Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos) blog. "Overseas Private Investment Council Press Release (Full Text)"Some of us have wondered what Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) learned at the CIA during his two year "training" period there. SourceWatch.Org Covers...
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By Lloyd Marcus Guest Blogger Coming from the projects, the story of President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, is inspiring. Ironically, the success of Obama, a black, and Sotomayor, a...
The African American Political Pundit is but one example of the many Black bloggers who are pleased to ecstatic over President Barack Obama's choice to nominate Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Latino Justice of the US Supreme Court. The African American Political Pundit...