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Black Pastors Reject Obama Over Gay Marriage Support
Tweet Share on Facebook July 6, 2012 CommentThe Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP) has an almighty bone to pick with President Barack Obama.
The Tenneesee-based clergy group is calling on black pastors from around the country to join them in rejecting the president for his stance on same-sex marriage.
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What If We Treated Political Contributors Like NASCAR Sponsors?
Tweet Share on Facebook July 6, 2012 CommentWhen Whispers interviewed Jesse Ventura in June, the former non-partisan Minnesota governor made an "out-there" suggestion about how to hold today's politicians more accountable.
"I think that all congressmen, senators, when they campaign should wear NASCAR racing suits," Ventura said. "They [could] have their sponsors, or donors, on big patches. Then we can learn as citizens who owns [which] candidate."
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For Black Americans, Independence Day Is Complicated
Tweet Share on Facebook July 5, 2012 CommentOn June 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed, marking the colonists' independence from Great Britain. But some 75 years later, some black Americans weren't ready to celebrate.
Abolitionist movement leader Frederick Douglass gave a scathing speech the day after Independence Day in 1852, saying: "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.... Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?"
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Three Ways States Screwed Up On The Stimulus Food Assistance Program
Tweet Share on Facebook July 3, 2012 CommentWhispers has the June audit of the Emergency Food Assistance Program, and it's not pretty.
The program, which used stimulus funds to provide states with food for Americans in need, is revealed to have wasted food, inaccurately reported jobs created, and operated with a conflict of interest, according to the audit.
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New Financial Forms Show Clarence Thomas's Wife Continued to Lobby Against Healthcare In 2011
Tweet Share on Facebook July 2, 2012 CommentLast week, a meme made its way around the Internet asking why Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was planning to rule on the healthcare law when his wife, a conservative lobbyist, has made so much money challenging the law.
Now, just days after healthcare law was upheld (with Clarence Thomas dissenting), new financial forms show that Thomas's wife, Ginni, continued to rake in a profit from opposing healthcare reforms in 2011—even after she previously came under fire for doing so.
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Rupert Murdoch Spent Sunday Hammering Mitt Romney on Twitter
Tweet Share on Facebook July 2, 2012 CommentIt doesn't bode well for a GOP presidential candidate when the man who owns a massive conservative media empire trash talks him on Twitter.
"[President Obama] will be hard to beat unless [Mitt Romney] drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful," Rupert Murdoch wrote Sunday.
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Jeremiah Wright To Deliver Sermon In D.C. Sunday
Tweet Share on Facebook July 2, 2012 CommentD.C.'s historic Florida Avenue Baptist Church is marking its centennial with a special sermon on Sunday, delivered by President Barack Obama's former pastor, the controversial Jeremiah Wright.
During the 2008 Obama campaign, the media dissected and lambasted Wright's former sermons, which included remarks that the Sept. 11 attacks were proof "America's chickens are coming home to roost," and another comment: "...not 'God Bless America.' God damn America."
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Will Healthcare Ruling Cause Some Republicans To Switch Sides?
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2012 CommentA post that appeared on social news site Reddit just hours after the Supreme Court healthcare ruling caught Whispers' eye Friday:
"I am Republican, prepared to vote for Obama. I... never voted for a Democratic president."
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Angry 'Obamacare' Videos Top YouTube's Politics Channel
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2012 CommentNowhere in YouTube's list of top five hot political videos from Thursday lies the speech intended to be most historic.
Instead of featuring President Barack Obama's White House East Room speech, in which he called the Supreme Court ruling on health care "a victory for people all over this country," YouTube's top politics videos from Thursday are as follows:
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Eric Holder Skips Off To Disney World
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2012 CommentHours after being held in contempt of Congress Thursday, Eric Holder skipped out of town.
To Disneyworld.
