EM suit isn't about preserving democracy
Objections to the EM law are a result of pure Democratic Party and organized labor politics.
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Al Sharpton
Detroit protests from Hell
Political mercenaries like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have boundless expertise in running their mouths.
Orr enrages Jackson and Sharpton. Good.
If people like Jackson and Sharpton sense a storm brewing in Detroit, it means things are changing.
Black conservatives and gay marriage
Is there any such animal as a black conservative? There are blacks that have run in political races calling themselves conservatives, like Herman Cain. But we all knew what he was about from the beginning. Cain wanted to do the Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton thing — run for a nomination he knew he wouldn’t get … Continue Reading →
Payne: The Sharpton Show
In 1987 when I was but a pup newspaperman, Tom Wolfe’s classic “Bonfire of the Vanities” captured Al Sharpton’s race circus antics in the person of the novel’s fictional Reverend Reginald Bacon, a New York race huckster exploiting a complex crime scene for racial purposes. Wolfe’s novel was remarkably prescient about events that unfolded that … Continue Reading →