While many people in the United States, across the African Diaspora and around the world celebrated the November 4, 2008 election of Barack Obama as our president, there were elements of my country...
During the election of 2008, the McCain campaign portrayed Barack Obama as a celebrity with very little substance. The liberal left fought against this stereotype. Now that he has been elected, the...
“History shows that it does not matter who is in power… those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end...
Vice President Joe Biden's biography became a campaign tool when he joined the Obama ticket this past summer. Then-Senator Biden's no-bull attitude meshed well with the story of the father who took...
I feel like a little girl standing in the sun, beams shining full on her face, grin cocked towards heaven. For the first time in my adult life, I understand what spring feels like for budding...
It is official, Governor R Blagojevich has been convicted in the Senate despite an impassioned plea. Listening to his speech the other day, I noticed that the one theme that he kept returning to was...
Save your psychic self-defense 'Cause I don't care what you're against What are you for? -All, "What are you for?" The progressive movement in the United States is having a strange identity crisis...
I've never been much for patriotism. Never understood what the heck people were talking about, frankly, when they said they wanted to serve their country. I started trying to change my country long...
My father's warning to me 9 years ago, faced with my first US election as a voter, has come true today: you're voting for yourself, and your father and your family, and your country. President...
In Canada, we have socialized medicine, same gender marriage is legal, and though we have a disparity between rich and poor it does not come close to the separation in the United States. Our rate of...