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Chokwe Lumumba, Jackson, MS Radical Mayor Dies at 66 (VIDEO)

February 26, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Chokwe Lumumba

Chokwe Lumumba at his inaugural address in 2013 The mayor of Jackson Mississippi Chokwe Lumumba died of heart failure on Tuesday. Lumumba, who died Tuesday at age 66 of heart failure, took office last July in a city coping with the long-term effects of middle-class flight and infrastructure decay. He was a proud black radical. […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Chokwe Lumumba, Edwin Finley Taliaferro, Jackson, Mayor, Mississippi, PMA

LA Voter Warning for Sen Mary Landrieu: I Don’t Vote For Black People… They Got Their Place (AUDIO)

February 26, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Mary Landrieu Obamacare

  You read that headline correctly. That statement was made by Lafourche Parish resident Beau Broussard to NPR reporter Ailsa Chang. This statement was made in 2014. Are we not post racial yet? Ailsa Chang reports that Beau Broussard has problems with the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).He like many in the South have bought into […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Affordable Care Act, Mary Landrieu, obamacare

Krystal Ball Not Backing Down: She says ‘Run Elizabeth Warren Run’ (VIDEO)

February 26, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Krystal Ball Elizabeth Warren Hillary Clinton

Krystal Ball Continues To Urge A Elizabeth Warren Run A couple of weeks ago Krystal Ball suggested on her Krystal Clear segment that Hillary Clinton should not run. Her contention was that Hillary Clinton was too close to Wall Street. She also scolded Hillary Clinton for implying it was fool hearted to pile on about […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Egberto Willies, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, Krystal Ball, Markos Moulitsas

Fox News Analyst: Lincoln Set About On The Most Murderous War In American History’ (VIDEO)

February 25, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Andrew Napolitano

Judge Andrew Napolitano had a very Ron Paul ‘esque’ statement on Republican President Abraham Lincoln, slavery, and money. After listening to his commentary one must ask where lays his morality, decency, and humanity. This type of orchestrated misinformation is responsible for much of the divide in America. It is no accident that it finds a […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Andrew Napolitano, Fox News, Ta-nehisi Coates

This is the best discussion on minimum wage. It should be $18.00 (VIDEO)

February 23, 2014 By Egberto Willies

minimum wage Matthew Dawd

Matthew Dawd made the most important statement on the minimum wage. When a conservative is proposing taxing the rich as opposed to raising the minimum wage, one knows an issue has traction. When a moderate is suggesting that based on productivity math, the minimum wage should be $18.00/hour, then an issue has traction. When a […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Bill Kristol, Donna Brazille, Matthew Dowd

Hopeful Message: Congress Should Beware Of Desperate Workers (VIDEO)

February 23, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Congress Cliff Olney

Cliff Olney is a good friend and one of my CNN iReport colleagues. During the last political cycle we did a lot of iReports that CNN used on HLN, CNN’s live broadcasts, and on CNN online properties. Cliff Olney has continued vlogging well researched commentary. I get an alert whenever he posts a new one. […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Cliff Olney, Congress, worker

This Governor Tells Unionized Companies We Don’t Want Your Jobs (VIDEO)

February 21, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Nikki Haley union South Carolina

In Nikki Haley’s state ideology trump jobs. After Volkswagen workers decided to turn down unionization at their plant, pundits called it a defeat for the UAW. The reality is that this was a loss for the workers. There is ample data that shows that America’s decline in wages track the decline of worker unions, It […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Governor, GreenvilleOnline.com, Nikki Haley, SC, south carolina

Should it be Capitalism for the few or free enterprise for all?

February 21, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Unfettered Capitalism

David Brooks New York Times piece “Capitalism for the Masses” is a blood boiler. Macroeconomic math is very simple. There is one mathematical fact. If the wealth of the rich is growing at a consistently higher rate than the rate of the economy’s aggregate wealth creation and that rate differential is not completely attributable to […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: capitalism, David Brooks, Evergreen, unfettered capitalism

Senator’s misleading VW workers to vote against union may now cost jobs (VIDEOS)

February 21, 2014 By Egberto Willies

VW Volkswagen union

Did Bob Corker serve his VW constituents or ideology at all cost? It is no joke when one is coerced to vote against one’s own interest. Yet that is exactly what seemed to have happened in Tennessee. When it seemed that Volkswagen voters would vote to unionize, leaders in their state along with outside groups […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Bob Corker, Volkswagen, VWBernd Osterloh

Net Benefit Of Higher Minimum Wage Is Fact – CBO Report Misreported (VIDEO)

February 20, 2014 By Egberto Willies

minimum wage bob herbert

Many economists are flabbergasted because all the best scholarship on minimum wage shows it does not cost jobs. The CBO provided absolutely no new analysis to refute that. The reality is that the CBO report is overwhelmingly positive on the impacts of raising the minimum wage. 25 million Americans would receive more pay. This will […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Bob Herbert, Demos, minimum wage, msnbc, subsidies, Welfare

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