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Finger-point Congress, Not President Obama, for Killing 18 Life Saving Gun...

The Sandy Hook Elementary School monstrous massacre guaranteed that the heat will be turned up on President Obama to take the “meaningful action” that he called for on gun control. The heat is...

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What If President Obama Simply Issued Executive Orders Toughening Gun Curbs

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers implored President Obama to simply issue executive orders toughening gun curbs. They made their impassioned plea three years before the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary...

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Poor First to Barrel over the Fiscal Cliff

Earl Ofari Hutchinson President Obama took much heat a year ago when he floated a series of proposed budget cuts that would have slashed programs for the poor. The cuts would have reduced funding or...

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GOP Really Does Deserve Blame for Fiscal Cliff Peril

Earl Ofari Hutchinson GOP congressional leaders and officials never tire of accusing President Obama of trying to blame them for the chaos that would result if the nation tumbles over the fiscal cliff....

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Pain of Fiscal Cliff Averted, but Bigger Pain Ahead For Needy Wasn’t

The last minute deal to avert the fiscal cliff brought fiscal relief, but that relief will be short lived. A year ago GOP congressional leaders made clear that if they have their way they will weld the...

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GOP Still Aims to Make Obama a Failed President

GOP Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell drew much derision, snickers, and ridicule for falling flat in fulfilling his oft repeated goal to make President Obama a one term president. Obama’s smash...

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It’s Not about Hagel, it’s about President Obama

The issue is not the dubious foreign policy competence, independence, loose lipness or views of Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel. The issue is President Obama. The GOP has used the same shopworn...

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Much Ado about Nothing on Obama’s White Guy Appointees

Politics made for strange bedfellows in those taking swipes at President Obama’s white guy appointees. Staunch GOP conservative Mike Huckabee took the first hard whack. He screamed that Obama was a...

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Executive Orders on Guns Good Start but Congress is Still the Cure

President Obama’s unilateral White House action on gun control is a good start. But Obama took the action precisely because he knows that gun control legislation is a virtual dead letter in Congress at...

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Mississippi Murder Screams for Hate Crime Prosecution

Matthew Whitten Darby, a white teen, is scheduled to go on trial in February for the hit and run murder in July, 2012 of 61 year old John Butts, a Sunday school teacher, cancer survivor, and an...

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Forget Women in Combat, How About Men

With all due respects to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, women should not serve in combat. Yes, they should have equal pay, equal opportunities, and there should be absolutely no barrier to them rising...

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No Risk for President Obama in Immigration Reform Fight

President Obama almost certainly saw and heard the shouts of several dozen protestors that stood across from Del Sol High School in Las Vegas where he made his speech touting immigration reform. The...

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President Obama Alone Can’t Stop Black Murder Plague

Earl Ofari Hutchinson The murder of 15 year old honor student Hadiya Pendleton on Chicago’s South Side drew national attention because she performed at President Obama’s inauguration. Her murder defied...

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President Obama’s State of the Union Speech Under Fire Again

The GOP’s response to President Obama’s first post reelection State of the Union Address in some ways will be markedly different than in its response to his prior addresses. But in one way it will be...

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Dorner’s Demise Won’t Change the LAPD

Even before the demise of rogue ex LAPD cop Christopher Dorner, there was endless speculation that the Justice Department or an independent commission would step in to investigate whether there was...

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President Obama Slays GOP Myth of “Evil” Big Government

The GOP’s inviolate article of faith is that big government is inherently evil. The GOP has been stupendously successful through much of the last century in tagging any Democrat that champions...

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GOP May Get its Fond Wish of Killing the Voting Rights Act

One of the GOP’s fondest wishes has been to kill the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. Twice it floated several trial balloons in Congress. The first one was in 1981 when the Act came up for renewal....

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Fingering Federal Prosecutors for Racial Bias

Supreme Court justices Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer virtually seethed with rage in their roundhouse denunciation of the High Court’s denial of review to Bongani Charles Calhoun. The issue...

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A Bigger Problem for President Obama than Poll Numbers Drop

Much was made of President Obama’s seven point approval rating drop. But there’s really no surprise at the drop. The history of presidential wins have well shown that presidential approval ratings are...

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Top Democrats Badly Blew it on Filibuster

Kentucky senator and Tea Party darling Rand Paul deserves credit for one thing in his windy 13 hour one man filibuster against the confirmation of John Brennan as CIA Director. He publicly demonstrated...

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