Top Black Republicans Vying for Lead in Tea Party "Minstrel Show"

What I couldn't for the life of me fathom was the increasingly strident and intolerant rhetoric of the top African-Americans in the Republican party.  And then the truth struck me like the steamy odor of boiling chitterlings. Congressmen Allen West and Herman Cain are both auditioning for the same lead  part in the Tea Party's yet-to-be-announced minstrel show.  No other explanation makes sense. 

Are Palin & Bachmann Creations of Scandal-ridden Murdoch Media Empire?


Since 2008, many Americans, myself included, have been stupefied by the rise to political celebrity of two anti-rational, mean-spirited women with nothing going for themselves other than sex appeal.    But now I get it.  The answer in short is Rubert Murdoch.

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann

Sunday, the media mogul closed the 168 year old British newspaper, "The News of the World,"  in a desperate attempt to contain a scandal that is now threatening to bring down his entire media empire.  In Britain, policemen were bribed for stories.  In search of spicy tidbits that gave it a competitive edge, the newspaper  hacked the voicemail of murdered children, the former Prime Minister, and now, it turns out, even families of 9/11 victim.   

Will Jury System Survive Uproar over Casey Anthony Acquittal?

As a blogger, I am grateful for the freedom not to be bound to those protocols of mainstream journalism that make it impossible to write what is real and true. Casey Anthony killed her two year old daughter, Caylee Marie. She didn’t “allegedly” do it.  Nor is she innocent of that crime because 12 jurors found her "not guilty". In fact, we shall soon enough see that the O.J. Simpson verdict was the beginning of the end of the American jury system. Casey Anthony acquittal merely accelerated its demise by a century.

Casey Anthony Acquittal Raises Question: Is Trial by Jury A Medieval Throwback?

A Florida jury has just acquitted twenty-five year old Casey Anthony, in the murder of her two-year old daughter, Caylee Marie.  While I have no way of knowing how the jury reached its decision, I do know this.  Since the 1995 acquittal of O.J. Simpson for the double murder of his ex-wife and a friend, the legal system of trial by jury has come under increasing attack.  Growing segments of the American public are perplexed at what the seemingly arcane protocols of jury trials have to do with establishing one’s guilt or innocence.  In truth, America's criminal justice system is in many ways a legacy of Medieval Europe's "trial by combat."    Notions of "empirical truth," were meaningless in those days, since whoever won the combat was designated to be" in the right."  I touched on this matter in an earlier post.