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Donald Trump: America’s Putin?
August 8, 2015
By now most of America has seen or heard about Donald Trump’s theatrics in the first Republican debate Thursday night, from his refusal to pledge he won’t run as an Independent to his Rosie O’Donnell crack in response to...
New York Guys Flee ‘Trainwreck’ Women
August 3, 2015
by Heather Robinson
From The New York Post
It’s the oldest piece of dating advice in the world: Everyone enjoys the life of the party, but no one wants to take her home. But is it still true in 2015?
In her hit film “Trainwreck,” comedienne Amy Schumer...
Obama, in Africa, Echoed NYC Activist’s Plea
August 2, 2015
On his trip to Africa last week, President Obama called upon combatants in South Sudan’s bloody civil war to halt their violence. In demanding that South Sudanese leaders cease stoking the bloodshed that has claimed 70,000 lives in...
Huck Touches a Nerve
July 30, 2015
Mike Huckabee set off a firestorm this week when he declared, of President Obama’s deal with Iran, “He would take Israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven.”
Huckabee has received blowback from a range of...
In Times Square, 10,000 rally to stop Iran
July 23, 2015
An estimated 10,000 people turned out in Times Square Wednesday evening for a rally to protest President Obama’s deal with Iran. Many demonstrators carried signs addressing Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), whose vote many analysts...
Dark day for Israel and the world?
July 14, 2015
Today negotiators reached a much-anticipated deal aimed at reining in Iran’s nuclear program.
This agreement, the result of two years of negotiations on the part of the U.S. and others in the international community, allows Iran to...
Simon Deng on Day 40 of Hunger Strike to Save South Sudan
June 24, 2015
Today, The New York Times at last ran a cover story on the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. Here in New York City, Simon Deng, escaped slave and human rights advocate, continues his hunger strike. He is now on Day 40 with no solid food and...
Soul of America hurts today
June 18, 2015
Today the vicious and cowardly mass shooter who killed nine people at a prayer meeting at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. was arrested.
To call what this lowlife did vicious, evil, and cowardly would of course be an...
Look at the Cuteness
June 7, 2015
…and strength of this beautiful horse! The first triple crown winner in 37 years, American Pharoah won the third race in the Triple Crown tonight in the Belmont Stakes in Elmont, New York.
The fact that tonight’s win comes after 37...
Do Black Lives Matter?
June 1, 2015
by Heather Robinson
Simon Deng on Day 18 of Hunger Strike to Save South Sudan
He is a free man now, and he’s determined to use that freedom to stir President Obama to “save the lives of untold millions of Africans” who are in danger of dying in Southern...