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The Nation is reporting that despite the urgent need for an economic stimulus package and its passage in the House, the Right is leading a massive Senate calling initiative to kill the bill in the Senate:  Nonetheless, as Horn reports, ”Here in Washington, DC, the word on the street is that...

At the rate these criticisms are mounting, Obama will be lucky if he escapes impeachment in March.  It’s been literally seven days since he took office, and his foreign policy and domestic policy initiatives have been roundly criticized and questioned.  Remember folks: Bush fucked things up ...

The Bush administration has left in its wake a literal big mess for the Obama administration to clean up regarding the processing and trials of Guantánamo Bay detainees.  President Obama and his colleagues, in order to enact the rule of law decided and ignored during the Bush administration, must ...

January 20, 2009 was a day of rewriting and redefining possibilities in America. It was a day of triumph and celebration, of sacrifice and tears. A beautiful black family, full of love and no stranger to hard times, will enter the history books as 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, b...

A collection of articles, accounts, interviews, pictures and reports I’ve seen over the last few days. Pictorial comparison first. Israeli neighborhood bomb shelter. An Israeli neighborhood bomb shelter. A Palestinian bomb shelter. A Palestinian “neighborhood bomb shelter.” Breakin...

Oh, sexism. How you rear your silly head in the most obscure and well-meaning of metaphors. From the New York Times today: For Kennedy, Self-Promotion Is Unfamiliar By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and JEREMY W. PETERS After a lifetime of being wooed by others, Caroline Kennedy is still learning how to sell h...

Apologies if this entry reads more like a disjointed legal treatise than a blog post; I’m three days out of finals and I haven’t decolonized my writing yet. No on Proposition 8 failed strategically as a political campaign, and Rolling Stone is the first mainstream publication to make the...

Hi, I’m Sylvia. I’m new to the CFLF crowd, and my regular blogging spot is at Problem Chylde. I’m a black twentysomething going through the sweet hell that is law school. I’m rounding out the first semester of my third year after putting down the Publish button for a few mont...