by Egberto Willies I have been mad at our political/economic system for some time. After leaving my activism in college I settled in a good corporate job as an engineer for 5 years. I then “built “my own software company. While insulated from today’s and yesteryears’ ills of working for companies that continue wage depression […]

Originally Poster HERE. Tavis Smiley and Cornel West have been running around the country for some time disparaging the president on his progressive values and on his specific action to attack poverty in general and on problems in the black community specifically. While there is much merit to what they say, generally their failure to […]

  Warren Buffett On Fiscal Cliff: GOP Needs To Put ‘Country Over Party’ The Huffington Post | By Harry Bradford Posted: 11/14/2012 5:32 pm EST Updated: 11/14/2012 5:32 pm EST Rest assured. Despite the fiscal cliff hysteria currently gripping the nation, an Oracle has spoken, and he says there’s nothing to fear. Billionaire philanthropist and […]

  Nancy Pelosi Announcement: House Democrat Reportedly Remaining Minority Leader Posted: 11/14/2012 9:14 am EST Updated: 11/14/2012 9:23 am EST Nancy Pelosi will keep her post as House Minority leader in the next congressional term, according to CNN and ABC News. The California Democrat was expected to announce her plans for her political future on […]

  Angus King To Caucus With Senate Democrats By ANDREW MIGA 11/14/12 09:15 AM ET EST WASHINGTON — Independent Senator-elect Angus King of Maine says he has decided to caucus with Democrats, which will add to the party’s voting edge. His decision ends months of speculation about which party he would align with. The former […]

  (VIDEO) GOP Lee Atwater Detailing Southern Strategy “By 1968 You Can’t Say Nigger” But? Many of the Republican operatives like to hide from the strategy they have decided to embark on. The Southern Strategy practiced by Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and George W Bush was always done subliminally. They stay behind […]

  Multiple CRS Reports Show Return to Clinton-Era Tax Rates for Rich Will Not Harm Economic Growth Posted on November 9, 2012 The New York Times recently reported that a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report was "withdrawn from circulation" at the behest of Senate Republicans. The CRS report finds no relationship between upper-income tax rates […]

  Republicans are priming their base with the mathematical fact that taxes will have to be raised. Bill Kristol has implicitly blown a hole in the Republican fantasy that somehow simply closing loopholes can bring us fiscal responsibility. For Bill Kristol to come out with the statements in the video below means that he understands […]

  The following is my latest article to the Kingwood Observer. I want to thank the editors for running it as I know sometimes they take a lot of flak from a concerted and organized group whose sole intent is to keep the community uninformed for ideological reasons. LIKE My Facebook Page PDF of Article […]

  The debate last night showed the stark differences in the policies of both campaigns. After reading the transcripts every unbiased person will come to the conclusion that Vice President Biden was substantive and that Paul Ryan was a parrot of talking points. That said both candidates knew all the relevant foreign policy issues and […]