“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”.

(CNN) – Rep. Marcia Fudge, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, expressed concern in a letter to President Barack Obama over the lack of African Americans among his new Cabinet picks.

“Congressional Black Caucus offices have had numerous phone calls from constituents questioning why none of the new appointees will be able to speak to the unique needs of African Americans,” Fudge, D-Ohio, wrote. “Their ire is compounded by the overwhelming support you’ve received from the African American community.”

The president faced criticism at the beginning of the year when he picked white males for some of the highest spots in the administration, including secretary of state, treasury secretary, defense secretary and chief of staff (the latter of which has the status of Cabinet-rank).

White House staff, however, said Obama was not finished with his cabinet picks.  (more)

AT article by Jack Cashill:

Prodded  by a president with a weakness for racial agitation and enabled by a politically  complicit media, the State of Florida persists in a prosecution that can come to  no good end.

The  defendant is neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. The charge is the  second-degree murder. The potential outcomes range from major injustice, if  Zimmerman is convicted, to mayhem in the streets, if he’s acquitted. And the  state plods on as though the angels were on its side. They are  not.

The  witnesses to the February 2012 shooting of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin are  proving even more troublesome than the angels. The state’s case took a hit last  week when Witness #8, Martin’s alleged 16-year-old sweetheart “Dee Dee,” was  caught in falsehoods so flagrant that even the Trayvon-friendly Orlando Sentinel noticed them. Conceded the headline, “Lawyer: State’s main  witness in George Zimmerman murder case lied.” (more…)

[GWP] Obama scaled back spending on White House tours and tuition for US soldiers and Marines. …But the White House is already planning a big bash for Michelle Obama’s birthday. The Daily Mail reported:

Having picked up an Oscar, Adele might have thought her incredible US adventure couldn’t get much better.

But now I can reveal the Skyfall singer has landed the biggest gig of next year – singing for Michelle Obama during her 50th birthday party at the White House. (more…)

This probably, no… wait, check that,… This IS the most reflective example of Prog-logic twisted into Obamacare-like contortions to conflate an argument.   Just like Nancy Pelosi’s “we have to pass the bill to see what is in it” comment.   This comment that “It’s legal to hunt humans” by Dianne Feinstein shows, quite clearly, how logic is dispatched by the prog mind to shape ideology.

Let this sink in:

…”it’s legal to hunt humans”…

Deep Breath – Watch it again…… “it’s legal to hunt humans”

Really?

There is not a penguin big enough.

Will the grown-ups please report to the White House…..

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is postponing an award for an Egyptian activist who rallied worldwide attention against forced “virginity tests” on female protesters because of anti-American and anti-Semitic comments discovered on her Twitter account.

The State Department announced earlier this week that Samira Ibrahim would be among 10 recipients of the International Women of Courage award presented by Secretary of State John Kerry and first lady Michelle Obama on Friday.

But State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday the U.S. would hold off on awarding Ibrahim while officials investigate the tweets, which include support for attacks against U.S. diplomatic installations and praise for a terrorist assault against Israeli citizens in Bulgaria. (more…)

Hmmm, lets see…. how long do you think it will take John Brennan to begin deleting the information about his breaking into the State Dept website, scrubbing passport documents and covering up travel history when he was Obama’s campaign advisor?… just wondering’.   More to the story here

WASHINGTON DC – Senator Rand Paul’s nearly 13 hour filibuster may have started a conversation about U.S. drone policy, but it didn’t stop John Brennan from becoming CIA director.

Senators voted to 63 – 34 to elevate President Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser at the White House to lead the Central Intelligence Agency after Paul, R-Ky., dropped his opposition to a vote Thursday afternoon.

Paul had mounted the filibuster because he wanted assurances that the government would not target a non-combatant American citizen in the U.S. under the secret legal justification it uses to kill suspected terrorists overseas with armed drone strikes. (more…)

March 8th 2012 was a Thursday  –  It was also the the first “national press conference” organized by Ryan Julison, to introduce the Trayvon Martin story to the world. The visible press conference would serve as the launch pad for the Scheme Team story.

The previous evening Reuters had agreed to run the story as told by Trayvon Martin family attorney, Benjamin Crump, and family media consultant, Ryan Julison.

Today, March 8th, the media consultant’s goal was to put a visible face to the story.

The presser was held in Orlando, Florida. It was advertised in advance, and coordinated by Ryan Julison. The event showcased Trayvon’s father, Tracy Martin, and his girlfriend, Brandi Green. Cousin Stephen was also present holding a 5 year old picture of Trayvon from his Pop Warner football days.

In the days that followed girlfriend Brandi Green would be replaced in the family narrative by Trayvon’s mother Sybrina Fulton (who had not yet travelled to Sanford); But, in this initial presser, Brandi stood beside Tracy Martin. (Coincidently, unknown to both Brandi and Tracy at the time, Brandi was pregnant) Tracy’s then-current wife of 7 years, Alicia Martin, was never discussed, nor presented to the media. This helped the team fabricate a more public and media friendly image of a traditional family structure. (more…)

(By:  Jack Cashill)  The headline of the Orlando Sentinel on March 5 introduced a harsh note of  reality into the darkly comic opera the major media have been spinning around  the death of Trayvon Martin, “Lawyer: State’s main witness in George Zimmerman  murder case lied.”

That witness, Witness No. 8, Trayvon’s alleged 16-year-old sweetheart “Dee  Dee,” captivated the media when the story surfaced on March 20, 2012.

CNN covered it live. Anchor Kyra Phillips enthused about the “chilling new  perspective” added to the case by the testimony of this heartsick girl who was  on the phone with Trayvon when he was shot by George Zimmerman.

Phillips then introduced CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin.  Hostin had spoken  with a Martin family attorney and shared with the CNN audience what he had  learned. (more…)

Lie on stand raises credibility issue for chief witness in Trayvon Martin case. http://t.co/KZSbghypuK

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 6, 2013

Lawyer: State's most important witness in George Zimmerman case lied http://t.co/kcJwLUtZ2V #TrayvonMartin

— Daralene (@DaraleneJ) March 6, 2013

(more…)

What it’s like to live in the land of the perpetually aggrieved

[excerpt from PhillyMag.com]  I’ve shared my view of North Broad Street with people—white friends and colleagues—who see something else there: New buildings. Progress. Gentrification. They’re sunny about the area around Temple. I think they’re blind, that they’ve stopped looking. Indeed, I’ve begun to think that most white people stopped looking around at large segments of our city, at our poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods, a long time ago. One of the reasons, plainly put, is queasiness over race. Many of those neighborhoods are predominantly African-American. And if you’re white, you don’t merely avoid them—you do your best to erase them from your thoughts.

At the same time, white Philadelphians think a great deal about race. Begin to talk to people, and it’s clear it’s a dominant motif in and around our city. Everyone seems to have a story, often an uncomfortable story, about how white and black people relate. (more…)