Category Archive: Political Commentary

Obama Speech: We are all to blame pt. 3

A couple of days ago President Obama gave a speech in which he described how he was re-engaging American military forces in Iraq to combat the growing terrorist threat from ISIS (Islamic State… Continue reading

Iraq: We Are All to Blame…pt 2…Barack Obama

Now that we’ve given proper attention to how this whole sordid mess got started we can move on because there is no one whose hands are clean when it comes to Iraq. This… Continue reading

Iraq: We Are All to Blame pt. 1…George W. Bush

George Bush famously commented that history would judge whether his actions in Iraq were successful or not. At this point I think we have enough evidence to understand that this is definitely not… Continue reading

Eric Cantor: 4 Things I Learned from his Ridiculous Primary Loss

It’s been a while but now that the NBA playoffs are over (Congratulations Spurs) I am trying to get my life back in order. My life basically stops during the NBA playoffs but… Continue reading

Don Sterling: The Aftermath

If you have been following my twitter you know that I have been spending most of my time watching the NBA playoffs. So it was much to my dismay that my favorite time… Continue reading

The Obama Doctrine (Part 2)

As I said before I think the President’s handling of the Ukraine crisis indicates some things about his foreign policy beliefs and I think that this is a great time to try to… Continue reading

Ukraine: Why is it so important?

Since I finally got around to writing about Ukraine I figured I’d go ahead and fill in some reasons why Ukraine is important to the Russia and the United States. Why is Ukraine… Continue reading

The Obama Doctrine: A war of dollars instead of missiles

Generally speaking, the attachment of a President’s name to a doctrine is about a foreign policy position and by now it is public knowledge that President Obama has been confronted with some great… Continue reading

The N Word (Part 3) Is it Love?

So why do Black people claim it is a term of endearment? Somewhere along the line the N-Word became shorthand for “I understand.” It’s not that the N Word is a good word… Continue reading

The N Word: (Part 2) It’s more than Black and White

Knowing what I know about American history it is pretty obvious that for White people the word meant “slave, animal, property, inferior.” As time went on and stereotypes of Black people became more… Continue reading