Politics
Morgan Freeman Gets It Right
Actor Morgan Freeman has said something that I’ve been thinking for a long time when he criticized the idea of Black History Month. “You’re going to relegate my history to a month?” the 68-year-old actor says in an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” to air Sunday (7 p.m. EST). “I don’t want a black history […]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Is At It Again
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech that the Holocaust in which 6 million Jews were killed in Europe was a myth. Let’s forget for a second this man’s recent remarks on other Jewish related issues (he said in October that Israel should be “wiped off the map”) and look at this one in […]
Get Real, Congressman Cunningham
This story bugs the hell out of me. Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-California) gave a tearful resignation speech after being after pleading guilty to taking about $2.4 million in bribes in the last 6 years. “I am resigning from the House of Representatives because I’ve compromised the trust of my constituents,” Cunningham told reporters after […]