The man behind the now infamous video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comments has stepped forward to explain his motivations for recording the private fundraiser event last September. Choosing not to have his identity published, the man who recorded the video confirmed that he was working as a bartender with the event’s [...]
Film: Who Blocked AIDS Drugs From Reaching Africa?
December 27, 2012 | Posted by
Continuing our highlights of films scheduled to screen at month’s Sundance Film Festival, here’s a clip from a feature documentary that will compete in the World Cinema Documentary category, titled Fire In Blood, from director Dylan Mohan Gray. The short story, courtesy of Sundance, goes… In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Western governments and pharmaceutical companies blocked low-cost antiretroviral [...]
Three Years Later, Haitian Recovery Efforts Stumble
December 25, 2012 | Posted by
It has been almost three years since the earthquake that devastated Haiti on Jan. 12 2010. However, despite billions in international aid, hundreds of thousands of Haitian citizens are still left homeless and hungry. Government leaders in charge of spending have been accused of mismanagement, and as it stands now, reconstruction is still a ways [...]
Bill Clinton Wows The Crowd With Stirring Speech In Defense Of President Obama
September 6, 2012 | Posted by
The running joke used to be that only Bill Clinton could walk into a room of 100 die-hard Republicans and emerge with 50 votes an hour later. The former president reminded voters why he’s often called the most masterful politician of his generation on Wednesday night, stealing the spotlight at the Democratic National Convention in [...]
Romney Welfare Ad Plays on Racial Stereotyping
August 10, 2012 | Posted by
Each presidential campaign has stretched the truth in its ads about the opponent’s record, but the Romney team’s ads about the Obama administration’s welfare policy panders to one of the lowest common denominators: good old-fashioned racial stereotyping. In fact, PolitiFact.com, a site run by the Tampa Bay Times, which fact-checks political ads and statements, gives [...]
The World Says ‘Happy 94th Birthday’ to Nelson Mandela
July 18, 2012 | Posted by
Around the globe, schoolchildren, world leaders and everyday citizens are pausing today to honor the 94th birthday of Nelson Mandela, a global icon whom one child in South Africa called “the king of Africa.” Tributes to Mandela poured in from around the world to honor a special man. In South Africa, 12 million schoolchildren sang [...]
Bill Clinton Thinks The Obama Campaign Attacking Romney on Bain Capital is Bad Strategy
June 1, 2012 | Posted by
Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday night became the latest surrogate for President Obama to stray from campaign talking points, saying GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s business experience “crosses the qualification threshold.” In an interview on the Piers Morgan show on CNN, Clinton said the Obama campaign shouldn’t spend its energy criticizing Romney’s work at Bain [...]
Obama, Bush or Clinton: Who Put More Blacks at the Top?
May 1, 2012 | Posted by
There is an ongoing discussion regarding black hiring in the Obama Administration and this 2012 campaign which begs the question: How does President Obama rank when compared to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush with regard to the number of blacks hired for top jobs in his Administration? The current tally: Obama 4 (in [...]
