Politics Articles

Sandra Day O'Connor's birthday is right around the corner and what better way to celebrate than with some wonderful patriotic quotes? She is one of the most impressive women to ever meet the public eye.

Everyone has it wrong. Everyone is condemning Eliot Spitzer, guv of New York, for being a hypocrite, a liar and an infidel. They say that everything he stood for has been violated by this single wanton act.

I imagine, that along with most, you were riveted, alarmed and shocked as I was when recently viewing video clip after video clip of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama's pastor of the past 18 years, unleash a torrent of the most horrific race-baiting, anti-Semitic and virulently anti-American rhetoric I had ever heard, which included rants such as, "The government gives "black people" the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God bless America'? No, no, no.

In September 2005 the city of Ottawa passed a bylaw that would require all city taxi cab drivers to install security cameras in their vehicles by March 21, 2008. The mini security cameras would snap periodic still photos of a car’s occupants, On February 12, 2008 hundreds of taxi drivers protested outside of city hall in Ottawa by clogging the streets and honking their horns defiantly.

According to the latest census data, until the mid-1990s, over 30% of all African Americans lived in poverty. Since then, the percentage has dropped into the 20s and, since 2000, it has never exceeded 25%.

It is Election Year in the United States of America! It will be the 56th consecutive presidential election and a very peculiar one as the Democrats' party race for the White House has elected the first woman to run for president; Mrs.

Well, I've had quite an exciting week. First of all, the team here at the Advocacy Associates empire organized hundreds of Congressional meetings for two different Washington, DC fly-ins, both of which occurred on March 11th.

Barack Obama has captured the imagination of the nation. He's so wholesome, so sincere, so charismatic and charming, he almost comes off as naive. But underneath his ultra-smooth exterior, he's obviously a very complex, and very conflicted, man.

What happened to Unity08? I was involved in the now disbanded Unity08 movement, and I have to tell you that I am very disappointed about it. Things seemed to have been progressing well with the site.

Gender and race in Politics: Is it real? Is it important? Is it a distraction? Is it a way to divide and separate people from important discourse and meaningful discussion? Or when someone blurts out a statement that is innocent enough, and then is twisted and pigeon-holed into race and gender stereotypes, I have to wonder--are these statements bringing controversies out of the proverbial closet and making people look carefully at themselves? Or instead of looking at themselves, allow buttons to be pushed, become angry and take to making self-righteous commentary, as Keith Olbermann did the other night in response to Geraldine Farraro's remarks that started by saying that if her name was Gerald instead of Geraldine, she never would have been chosen to be Walter Mondale's running mate in the 1980's.