Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation through Calif. eyes
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vet Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor ahead of a vote to confirm her as the next Justice on the US Supreme Court.
If confirmed, which most agree she will be, Judge Sotomayor will become the first Latino and the third woman to sit on the [...]
Ethel Payne: History maker, history follower and “First Lady of the Black Press”
One of the best parts of coming to Washington has been getting to know more about my grandma’s sister, Ethel Payne, who I always knew as Aunt Ethel.
She was one the first black woman White House correspondents, starting her career in Japan, publishing work that started in her journal and ended in the pages of [...]
Gay Bishop’s invocation not aired by HBO but moves quickly on YouTube
So Sarah Pulliam is a reporter for Christianity Today. We worked together a few years ago at the Colorado Springs Gazette. Sunday’s big “We Are One” concert at the Lincoln Memorial and that aired on HBO, starting with the invocation of Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. It [...]
Buffalo Soldier on the Mall
I missed the concert at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday but wandered around the mall afterward and ran into Calvin Banks and his mare Carmen.
Banks has been riding horses since he was five-years-old and is a member of the mounted unit of the Maryland Buffalo Soldiers Horse Calvary. The unit goes to area schools to [...]
New economic stimulus plan: sell as much Obama schwag as you can
Hope. Inspiration. Brighter future. Change the world, blah blah blah. What continues to amaze me is the amount of money people are making on Barack Obama’s name and image. There have been plenty of jokes that the Kool-Aid’s been passed around among excited or obsessed Obama supporters but now its reaching critical levels of [...]
Happy birthday
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After waiting with thousands for a chance to see Barack Obama’s train arrive at Union Station, I met at a Sbarro’s the Hameeds, who I got to know on Election Day in San DIego.
While there, Amrit and Gurudass Kaur Khalsa came up to compliment Mrs. Hameed on her [...]
Kerner Commission 40 years ago and today: problems and solutions for America’s inner city poor and what Obama can do about it
The last time there was a Democratic majority of this kind in national politics was in the 1960s in Lyndon Johnson’s administration. Johnson would pass more legislation then almost any other president in American history. It would include Medicare, civil rights laws and the War on Poverty. But the Great Society, a sort of new [...]
Election Day and Night with San Diego Obama volunteers
Where were you when Barack Obama was elected president?
On a day called historic by all and which inspired spontaneous joy across the country and world, I spent Election day and night with the Obama group in my hometown San Diego, first at their headquarters in a closed business on Euclid Ave. then downtown in the [...]
