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Rev. Jesse Jackson prays for improved U.S.-Venezuelan relationship at Chavez funeral
Hollywood star Sean Penn, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and a pair of US politicians joined mourners at Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez’s funeral Friday, with the reverend praying for better US-Venezuelan relations. A somber-looking Penn, wearing a black suit and tie, sat among the crowd of foreign dignitaries who paid…
Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to take plea deal on campaign finance charges
Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) is entering a guilty plea to charges that he illegally spent campaign money. According to NBC News, a source close to the case said that Jackson has signed papers in a plea deal with federal prosecutors. In the papers, Jackson, son of fiery civil…
Republican lawmaker tells worker wanting higher minimum wage to ‘get a job’
A worker in Florida got an earful from Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-FL) on Wednesday when he asked the congressman to support a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour. “Jesse Jackson, Jr. is passing a bill around to increase the minimum wage to 10 bucks…
House Dems propose $10 per hour minimum wage
A group of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives proposed this week a bill that would raise the nation’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $10 per hour, which they say will help consumer purchasing power catch up to the rate of inflation since the late 1960s. It’s primary sponsor,…
These Are An Honest Man’s Cheekbones
After a while, it had to have become obvious to everyone in Illinois that talking to Rod Blagojevich about anything involving his office was like talking to a pedophile about the location of the nearest Toys R Us. It’s why this idea that Jesse Jackson, Jr. was participating in some…
Clueless White People On Display
Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan are grilling Jesse Jackson, Jr. on why the Democratic Party gets so many African-American votes yet has so few black senators, and will have none if Obama becomes President. I’m trying to imagine worse people to have a dumber conversation, and utterly failing. I’m seeing…
The Era Of Us Is Just Beginning
Although this George Will quote is getting a bunch of attention because it joins the ever-expanding train of comments theorizing that the only reason one black person supports another is because of race, while white people join together in book clubs and farmer’s markets and whatever else it is white…
Every Black Man Is Conservative When He Dies
Bernie Mac died yesterday. Ergo, he was a conservative hero. I mean, he owned guns and acted like a grown-ass man! It’s becoming a routine part of being black and semi-respectable to conservatives – you must be one of them. You don’t have dreadlocks, you don’t hang out with Jesse…
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