one people

Reuters on racial code in politics — and life:

If you aren’t getting Left Wing Cracker’s daily e-mails, well, you should be. He’s amazing, tireless and just the best.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should d

Go to Doks Emporium. They’re selling a 1/12 scale working (as in you can hook it up to cable) television. Why 1/12 scale, you ask? Who would want one? People with dollhouses, silly. That’s the scale used in a dollhouse and since houses from the 1960s onward had TVs, what better way to decorate the living room?

Some messages transcend politics and are purely inspirational. This is one of them.

"We are not as divided as our politics as suggest. We are one people, we are one nation.
There has never been anything false about hope. It was a creed, written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: 'yes we can.' Nothing will stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. "

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.

Yes we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.

Yes we can.

Today marked the sixth anniversary of the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In his platitudes about parting the seas and ending the cultural war, or reaching out to Republicans and uniting the nation, Obama talks a lot about JFK. As you can see from the video below, John F. Kennedy was no Obama. JFK was a fiery partisan -- exactly the kind of Democrat we desperately need in the White House.

OK, it’s just the Weather channel and the associated website that’s for sale, but it’s a rather unique channel in the broadcast arena. It’s the only one that doesn’t get TIVO’d because you’d miss the weather and it’s the main one people turn to when the weather’s bad. That’s a combo that makes advertisers salivate heavily (think Hootch in the Turner �