Month: September 2009
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CBCF – Day 3
Day 3 started out a little slow – had to take time to download and edit video, recharge equipment batteries, and refuel my extrovert level. 9:00 pm: Nikema and I went to a VIP reception at the Love club. Great food, 4 floors of music, and lots of people watching. Let’s just say that Nikema…
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A tortured description
When he spoke to the U.N. General Assembly this week, President Barack Obama accomplished in one sentence what the New York Times has been unable to do for six years: refer to the practices used during the Bush administration to interrogate terrorism suspects as “torture.”
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CBCF – Day 2
This week I’m covering the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference in DC. This is Day 2 (I will get Day 1 events up as soon as I can). Today, there are about 100 different seminars focused on this year’s theme: Reinvent, Rebuild, Renew. 9:00 pm: Attended the 2nd Annual Sisterhood Congressional reception. This…
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Thinking Outside the Atlanta Democratic Beltway
Some of you may not know this, but there are several races THIS November for State House and State Senate caused by the vacancies of sitting General Assembly members. One such race is in Milledgeville. Bobby Parham was the State House member, a Democrat, from Milledgeville (get to Macon and head 45 minutes northeast), but…
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Circular logic
Here’s a nice bit of circular reasoning for you: my colleague Jim “The Chief” Galloway of the Journal-Constitution wrote a blog post Wednesday morning on the rumor that the College Football Hall of Fame will relocate from South Bend, Ind., to Atlanta.
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Thumbs Down, President Obama
Dear Adults, you are not longer allowed to light up a clove cigarette. Oh sure, you’ll still be able to light up a nicotine laced cancer stick and puff till your heart’s content, but clove cigarettes? No. It’s all for the children, you see. The FDA says those products attract and appeal to teenagers. The…